A Loving Heart, A Body of Steel

by renegadeofficer89

Love is the only cure to hatred. A person with a heart so big that he can accept anyone in his life, either human or not will be the saviour of the world. With a body of steel, he will rise above the hatred of the world, and be the catalyst to bring peace. Bloodline/Strong/Naruto, NaruxFemKyuuxHina pairing.

8. Chapter 7: 'Errands', Timeskip and Grad!

Hello everybody! This is renegadeofficer89 with a new chapter of A Loving Heart, A Body of Steel! I know that a lot of you are waiting for this chapter to come out, but due to my laptop being broken and this chap within it, I am unable to continue the typing, thus the reason why I typed a new story while this is unfinished. But never fear, I will alternate my updates for those who are reading both my stories. The next update will be for The Kitsune Emperor and The Zero, so the next chapter for this story will be a bit late. Also, for guest reviewers, I hoped that you can create an account on so that I can reply to you properly. I will reply to you, don't worry. Just create an account at this site. It's free, you can subscribe to the stories that you read and if inspiration strikes you later, you can also publish your own fanfics! Also, I have a beta now! Thanks to Veloran-Darkfyre for agreeing to become my beta and pointing me to some errors that I made! Though sadly, he is unable to beta this chapter as of yet due to RL obligations. Later, when he finished betaing the chap, I'll update it and notify all of you in an AN or whatever. Enough talk, have at you!

CHAPTER 7: 'ERRANDS', TIMESKIPS AND GRADUATION: Uploaded 25/01/2013

EDIT 26/01/2013: Changed Patriarch to Matriarch. Thanks Lydia-Hood!

-CHAPTER START-

"WHAT?!"

"YOU'RE/SHE'S MARRIED!?"

"SHE'S YOUR DAUGHTER?!"

Amidst all these shouts, Iruka, whose veins at his temple was pulsing madly, and then used his big Head jutsu again, before yelling "QUIEEEEEETT!" at the whole class. Watching this, Naruto just snickers, before placing a huge palm on Iruka's shoulder. "Iruka-sensei, it seems that the rest are curious about me. Since this is our first day, let us answer their questions first. Better to get this away now before it got any worse." Thinking that it's a great idea, and he didn't mind wasting a bit of time on questions, besides, he also wants to know about these new students of his. And after careful deliberation, he decided to let Naruto have his Q&A session. "Okay Naruto. I guess you can answer these kid's questions." He then turned towards the class. "Okay everyone! I know that you all have questions for them, so feel free to ask, since he has given permission for all of you to ask questions. But remember not to ask too personal a question and not to yell too loudly. Only ask one question at a time and one person at a time. Is that clear?!"

"HAI IRUKA-SENSEI!" the class chorused. The first hand that went up to ask a question was Konoha Academy's resident gossip queen, Yamanaka Ino. "Hinata-san, is it true that you're married to him?"

"Yes."

"But he's so tall, large and muscular! And you're pretty small compared to him! How does that work out?"

"We have our ways. Next!" Hinata, dodging the question, asked for someone else to ask their question, an act which caused Ino to sit down on her chair, pouting, but which causes another girl at the back of the class, a civilian named Ami to lift her hand up. "Kushina-san, is it true that you are the daughter of Naruto-san's first wife?"

"Yes! But I also love Hina-mama! She is a beautiful and strong person as well!" she answered with a wide smile on her face and her eyes lighting up like stars in the night.

This answer, combined with her face, causes the girls in the class to squeal while saying "CUUUUUUUTE!" and some even wondering what kind of wife his first was, with her letting him having a second woman in his life. But before most can ponder the question, another hand went up, and before Iruka can call the name of the student, the boy asked, "Naruto-san, how does it feel having two wives? I mean, my dad kept complaining all the time that my mother was a noisy person and it caused me to think that having a wife would be hard, much less two. How do you handle that?"

"Well, a good question there. Truth be told, the marriages was only fine because both of my wives understand each other. Oh they really do" He said with a weird giggle on his face, a blush and a little nosebleed. Iruka, pretty much the only person to understand this act tries to stop his line of thinking, with the rest of the students feeling confused at this sight. But before anything can happen, Naruto immediately continued. "They both understand each other, and one learns things that the other can't do while the other handles other things that cannot be done by the other, though all three of us slept on one huge bed together." Another perverse smile appeared on his face, with a matching smile and blush on Hinata's, while Kushina just stood there, confused.

Another boy lifted up his hand, and asked "How old are you actually? You look too big to be within the academy, and I know that the academy only accepts applicants by the age of 16 at the latest."

"A good question there. Actually, me and Hina-chan here have the same age as you guys, while Kushi-chan here is only two years old."

The class erupted with chatting and shouting of disbelief, though even Iruka finds this weird. Naruto then explains. "It's because of..."

The entire class was leaning in to hear his answer, the reason why they are much bigger and tougher than they are supposed to be at their age, even Iruka was leaning in to Naruto, before he continued. "...A secret!"

The entire class facefaulted at his answer, Iruka included. Justifying his secrecy, Naruto said "What? We're allowed some secrets right? Don't you have some? You don't want people to know right? Same with me here. It's just that people would ask, and thus I won't answer, for it's a secret. Simple as that."

Everybody grumbled due to his answer, but Iruka, ever the sharp-minded, had already considered the possibility of a bloodline limit. But knowing the importance of keeping a secret, he just kept his mouth shut. Then suddenly, the questions started raining on the trio.

"Where are you from?"

"How did Hokage-sama let you enter the academy?"

"Kushina-chan is sooo cuuuutteee!"

The last comment made everybody sweatdrop, but nobody can deny that fact. Her round face, blonde hair, shining blue eyes and her whisker marks made her look very cute. Some of the boys are already looking at her funny, though Naruto knew that she can protect herself. But Kushina had a different idea. Listening to people praising her like that really made her happy, and causes her to giggle on top of his father's shoulders, causing the girls to swoon even more for her. Naruto just smiles watching this.

After a couple more minutes, the Q&A session was finally over, and Naruto and Hinata chose a seat at the back beside a boy with pineapple style black hair and who was sleeping on the table. The boy, the heir to the Nara clan, Nara Shikamaru was a genius beyond compare among his peers, though his sloth-like spirit is his main weakness. The Nara men are naturally too lazy to do a lot of things, though if they put their efforts into something, what happens is nothing but absolute perfection. But still, in this particular day, Shikamaru didn't have anything to say to Naruto, and continued his nap. Naruto, seeing this, gave him a light smack to his back, light in relative to Naruto's strength, which causes him to jump out of his seat, surprising the rest of the class.

"Hey there, sleepyhead! My name's Naruto, in case you missed the introduction before. This girl on my shoulders is Kushina-chan, my daughter, and this girl beside me is Hinata-chan, my second wife. And so, who are you?"

"Troublesome. Nara Shikamaru." And with that said, he went back to sleep. Naruto just sighed, and watched the rest of the class, his eyes scanning them like hawks while placing one ear to listen to Iruka's extremely boring lectures. If not for his Astartes body, he would've joined Shikamaru on the table.

Among the ones that attracted him was Haruno Sakura, whose mother, if what he heard from the populace of Konoha was correct, was one of the council's members, and a pretty good one too. Her pink hair made her seem a bit obvious in stealth classes, but he knows how looks can be deceiving. Her daughter has golden blonde hair, anyway, and she's damn good at hiding herself.

The second person was Yamanaka Ino, who sat beside Sakura. She's the heiress to the Yamanaka clan, a clan whose specialty laid with mind manipulation and interrogation techniques, though Naruto's not sure just how much does she knew of her clan's techniques. But what Naruto knew is that she is one hell of a gossip queen, and he was sure that the news of Hinata's marriage to him would be known to the entire village by day's end. Which was actually what he planned for Hinata. By being able to confront both her clan's member and potentially her father, she'll be able to complete her confidence training, though Naruto will be watching right beside her, and is ready to interfere if something bad happens to her.

The next was another clan heir, Aburame Shino. Being from the Aburame clan, Shino was a lonely person, sitting at the corner of the class with no one else beside him, though he knows that it's for the best. The Kikaichu of his would be too attracted to him due to the purified youki within him, which insects and other smaller lifeforms are naturally attracted to. Also, most people felt disgusted at his clan due to the fact that they use bugs to attack their enemies. But this is what makes them one of the deadliest clans within Konoha. Their Kikaichus are capable of draining a target of chakra within seconds, and combined with a naturally logical and tactical mind makes them capable of taking down enemies much stronger than themselves.

Another was a feral looking kid with a tiny white dog within his jacket, the second child of the Inuzuka Clan head, Inuzuka Kiba and his dog, Akamaru. Though both of them started growling, with Naruto being able to listen to Kiba whispering to his dog that they smelled foxes within the class, which causes Naruto to laugh inwardly. They are from one of Konoha's most successful tracking and hunter clan, the Inuzukas. With their nin dogs and their own feral strength, they are capable of tracking their targets through nearly anything, and their clan produces some of the best hunter nins that Konoha has. A threat if properly trained, Kiba as he is now is nothing but a runt.

The next person was a big boned kid named Akimichi Chouji. Known not just for their extremely delicious cooking, the Akimichis are also famous fighters, their brute strength are said to be capable of wiping out entire platoons of ninjas during wartime, but outside of it, they are gentle giants, not wanting to harm anyone and prepares awesome food for the whole village to enjoy. Their delicacies are also known far and wide, and are liked by a lot of people from the entire Elemental Nations. The gentle giant part is the part where Naruto wanted Hinata to become, gentle and sweet, but a lioness in battle, giving no mercy to those who deserve none, brutally slaughtering her enemies and cutting them down without respite. Minus the giant part. She's good as petite as she was now.

The last person that attracted Naruto's eyes was the little brother of Uchiha Itachi, Uchiha Sasuke. A skilled person at a young age, if what Naruto heard was true, he absolutely adores his brother and his clan, with his face set in a small scowl that seems permanent on the faces of any of those of the Uchiha clan. Naruto had no love lost towards them, the clan of copycats are absolutely proud of their bloodline, and didn't even bother training a lot, they just depended almost completely on their bloodline to defeat an enemy. Genjutsu by eye contact, high speed motion tracking and move prediction, eidetic memory and the capability to copy enemy (or friend's, if one was feeling left out) jutsus made them a terror on the battlefield, and they pretty much earned their name as one of Konoha's strongest clans. Though nowadays, it seems that their strength had decreased, not being able to do much except for controlling the Konoha Police Force, and rumours of instability within the clan causes them to drift further away from the village.

With these observations done, Naruto lifted Kushina from his shoulders and excused himself, stating to Iruka that he was going to the toilet. Once he reaches it, he created hundreds of clones that instantly henges themselves as various insects with purified youki as their core, causing them to last as long as they are not dispelled, and they can even recover back their chakra. In other words, they are clones in the absolute sense of the word, dispelling only when they died. He then walked back into the class, with the various insects flying silently and without notice from everyone to every person within the academy. It never hurts to have additional intel after all.

-BREAK-

Lunch break arrived, and Kushina, who kept sitting on her father's shoulders even when he just came back from his impromptu spying mission, for some weird reason asked her father to place her down, afterwards which she immediately ran towards a gaggle of kids who immediately played with her, holding her blonde, silky hair, pinching her whisker marks. "She really is someone who likes the attention that people gave to her. At least she knows how to control her emotion, so that when the inevitable happens, she can just stand back and ignore their glares." Naruto mused. Then, Hinata came beside him, who was still sitting on the ground after placing Kushina down, and sat within his lap, giving him a small kiss. "She really likes to have these small gestures of love, even though she knew that I won't leave her without any support. It seems like she is still insecure of her own confidence, something that I want to remedy, as soon as possible."

"Naru-kun, why do you let Kushi –chan over there alone? Won't the people hate her later?"

"... That, as possible as it is, forces me to just let her go. It is so that she can enjoy her own childhood, sped up a hundred times due to our bloodline and the training that she went through. It is also so that when their parents told their children to avoid or even abuse her, they can think for themselves before blaming a demon due to the fact that she is my daughter."

"...that sounds cruel."

"It does, it is and I won't deny it. However, it is also true that by enduring that, she can grow stronger, because her only weakness is her own feelings outside of battles and missions. By doing this, she can improve herself, just like you did, my second love."

And with that, Naruto kisses Hinata full on her lips which she reciprocates, causing a wave of "AAWWWWWWW"'s to come from the academy students who saw the sight. At this, Hinata blushed red, but didn't faint. They then broke apart, with Hinata pretty much gasping for breath while Naruto felt normal. After recovering her breath, she looked towards Naruto and said, "You mean it? I'm your love as well?"

"Of course! You are my wife, and no husband worth heir salt would say that they didn't love their wife."

"T-then, Naru-kun, I want you to know, that I l-l-loved you as well!" she screamed out, not caring that it was heard by everyone at the courtyard before jumping straight into Naruto's open, awaiting arms, and kissed him forcefully, the strength of it caught Naruto by surprise. Another wave of "AWWWWWW"'s was heard, before a horrifying thought settled in their mind, when they saw that their tongues started to cross each other in front of everyone, with Naruto's one arm going under her jacket to her boob, and another went to grab her plump ass. Before all the kids can be traumatized by the sight in front of them, the sound of throat clearing could be heard, which causes Naruto to stop swapping spit with Hinata who felt pissed at someone interrupting their make out session, until she saw that Iruka was standing there with his arms crossed and one of his feet tapping the ground.

"And just what did you two think of doing?"

"I was showing my love to my wife/husband!" they both answered at once.

Iruka facepalmed, before continuing to ask, "In front of all these kids?" while sweeping his arm backwards, showing that everyone there has frozen solid, with only Kushina still giggling watching her parents.

Watching this sight, Naruto sheepishly scratched the back of his head while saying "Hehe, whoops?" while Hinata blushed red due to the public make out display that she just did. This shows just how much her confidence has been boosted that she no longer faints just by the thought of doing acts like this.

Iruka sighs before continuing "I know that you are both married, but please refrain from making out with your wife or husband during academy times. We are definitely not responsible for any... 'side effects' that such act would cause, but please refrain from doing so within the academy."

Hinata blushed even redder while Naruto just waved at Iruka, and generally ignoring him. They're his wives! It's his choice where and when to show affecttion to them! Kushina then ran at him and stated to climb up his shoulders again, and just generally ignoring the rest of the students who are still frozen, having used to her parents' public display of affection.

Suddenly, the crowd parted to show the face of one person that Hinata did not want to meet at this time, knowing that it will not be a nice or even barely civil encounter, the mocking face of Hyuuga Neji. A child prodigy, he was now considered one of the most powerful Hyuuga of his age, and was a year older than Hinata. His face, fixed with an expression of disdain, walked towards Naruto and Hinata, upon reaching them, he spoke, "So, the disgraceful failure of the Hyuuga decided to show her face at the academy, with her husband as well? I heard the rumors."

Hinata, her heart hammering within her chest but still displaying a look of confidence, replied. "Yes. What is it to you, Hyuuga-san?" she said nonchalantly.

Hearing this reply from her, years upon years of rage that built up within him exploded, with him shouting "YOU SHOULD RESPECT YOUR BETTERS, GIRL!" and placed his hands in the handsign to activate the Caged Bird seal.

What happened next can only be seen by Kages or extremely good ninjas. Naruto activated a seal on his chest that creates a close range dome shaped barrier around him to prevent anybody from seeing him. He then appeared in front of Neji using his extreme speed before separating his hands and launching a powerful palm thrust laced with chakra to his chest, a palm thrust that was meant to do only one thing: to blow him away. And maybe deliver some internal injuries during the flight. Neji, not seeing this strike, flew at high speeds away from Hinata and Naruto, who already sat back down behind Hinata at the exact same position before he jumped and deactivated the barrier, causing Neji to crash onto a tree, breaking it and several ribs.

From everyone else's sight, they heard Neji shout, and the next moment, Neji's body had broken a tree in half with Hinata and Naruto not moving at all. No one, not even the chuunin teachers saw what happened, except that somehow Neji went flying for no reason. Seeing this, Naruto stood up, dusting his pants and said loudly, "I guess that someone should send Hyuuga-sama over there to the hospital, he's a little bit knocked up there." He said with a sneer. "Let that be a lesson for you Neji. Bug me and my family again and you'll see why I can spar with Sandaime on a regular basis." Yup, he still sparred with the Sandaime, and still is planning on doing so even when he's in the academy.

At that, two chuunin teachers went to pick up the new Hyuuga heir and take him to the hospital, while another went to inform the Hyuuga clan of this development. "Well, there goes our peaceful life in the academy. The Hyuugas are going to hound us now. I just hope that we will not be bothered too much by those assholes." Then he looked at Hinata, and sweatdropped when he saw that she was looking at his face, pouting. Even Kushina was giggling at her second mother's cute pouting face. "Naru-kun, why did you do that? It's not that I can't protect myself from him!"

"I know, but it's not just the fact that he was about to activate 'the seal' on your head, it's the way he spoke to you that pisses me off. You know that I am protective of my family. I will not let anyone harm you, no matter what." And with that, he kissed her again.

-BREAK-

The academy is finally over, with Iruka notifying everyone of the spar at the end of the week, something that everyone can't wait to go through, to see how good the new guys are. Naruto, with Hinata beside him with the seal on her head displayed proudly with some minute additions that no one can see and Kushina on his head. He just had a feeling that crap would've occurred during his way back to his home, and his thoughts was proven true when from afar, he saw a group of Hyuugas coming his way, led by Hiashi himself. Subtly notifying Hinata and preparing himself for anything, he ignored their presence and continued walking, causing one of the Hyuugas to break his emotionless facade and shouted at him. "Hey you! We have heard that you attacked our heir! For that-" but before he can finish his shouts, he was stopped by Hiashi, who stood in front of Naruto, looking completely unintimidated by Naaruto's massive size.

"I have reports that say you attacked our heir for no reason. Care to explain that?"

Hearing that Neji was the new heir, Hinata gasped, thinking that Hanabi was placed into the Branch Family as well. But Naruto ignored her for the time being, and said to Hiashi. "Oh? And how are you so sure that I attacked him?"

"The report came from an academy chuunin who says that Neji came to you to talk when he was suddenly knocked back, and got injured when he hit a tree."

"Really? Now, are there eyewitness accounts that say I hit him?"

Hiashi was starting to lose his cool by this point. "There are no eyewitness accounts that say you hit him, but I know that no one else can do so."

"And how do you know that? Are you there to see what happened? Or do you spy on everyone in the village at any time using your oh-so-powerful eyes? I doubt that a Hyuuga like you with your stick-in-our-ass attitude would be caught dead watching people doing their... activities." Naruto said while he chuckled.

Hiashi by this point was boiling in his mind, but managed to keep a clear head to continue speaking. "Hmph. I am wasting time here talking to you. Trash like you, who would only take in other trash like that girl beside you, are not worthy of tal-" his tirade was stopped by the sight of a pissed off Kushina trying to land a powerful elbow on his head after jumping from his father's shoulders. Hiashi just dodged the attack, which turned into a roundhouse kick to his face. Hiashi, not expecting this, narrowed his eyes before preparing to counter her attack, but was stopped by the sight of Naruto holding his daughter's shoulders, which stopped the attack. Wordlessly, Kushina, who was placed down by her father afterwards, stood in front of her Hina-mama, ready to defend her if any attack were to come to her.

Hiashi then said, "Well, learn your place child. And you" he said, pointing to Naruto. "If I were to found proof that you attacked our heir, your punishment will be severe. Remember that."

Naruto casually replied. "Maybe if your heir wasn't so weak, he wouldn't get blown by that gust of wind that came all of a sudden. Never thought that Hyuugas can be so thin that they flew just by a gust of wind. Guess that stick up your ass isn't as helpful at holding you back from the wind as I thought. Maybe that's the way to defeat you guys: blowing you off!"

Hiashi kept his stony face on, even as his entourage shouted curses and calls for Naruto's blood for insulting their clan. Hiashi just lifted her hand and stopped the shouts wordlessly. "Enough. You better stop slandering the Hyuuga's name, or you will find that my anger is terrifying."

"Oh? And what will you do?"

Wordlessly, Hiashi lifted his hand to make the special handseal to activate the seal, which causes Hinata's face to turn in shock and fear. Then, he activated the sign, but was confused when nothing happened to Hinata. Confused, he tried activating the sign again, only for nothing to happen. Confused, he looked at Hinata's face which turned from shock and horror to a toying smirk. Still confused, he almost tried again, before a huge wave of KI slammed into the Hyuuga, causing some of the Hyuuga entourage to keel up and faint. Some even had spontaneous heart attacks due to the massive KI. However, Hiashi still stood there, with his face still set in his stony visage, though sweat was dropping from his forehead.

Naruto growled before he slowly said. "Listen here, Hyuuga. I don't mind if you were to threaten me. I don't mind if you attacked me. Hell, if you think you can kill me, then be my guest. I am open if you want to get your ass kicked to the borders of Kumo. But threaten my wives, my kids, and my family member, and I will END you. Do we have an agreement here?" by the end, Naruto was speaking slowly beside Hiashi's ears, who was sweating profusely but still held his ground with his face unchanged.

Naruto then left wordlessly to go back to his home, his family in tow. After they are out of sight, Hiashi suddenly fell to his knees, the front of his white robe was stained with sweat. The rest of his entourage was already knocked out, with three of them dead due to heart attacks. "That felt like the Kyuubi's! No, even the Kyuubi's didn't felt like that! Who are you, Uzumaki Naruto?" unknown to him, Naruto had placed multiple bug clones on him to gain information on the Hyuuga clan, to gain leverage against them in the future, if need be.

What he did towards Hiashi causes Naruto to gain a very good idea. He then started to create more bug clones and spread them everywhere that he went, so that the little guys can become his informant, giving him intelligence on the villagers' acts so that he may use it to his advantages later. It doesn't hurt being paranoid, especially in a village that hates his guts.

Meanwhile, Hiashi who has recovered from the ordeal of endangering Naruto's family was puzzled. The seal didn't activate as he wanted it to, which causes him to wonder if somehow, someone has managed to disable the Hyuuga Caged Bird seal and causes it to become ineffective. If so, that explains why she was smirking when he tried to activate the seal. "Nonsense. The Hyuuga's Caged Bird seal is irremovable. Once you placed it on someone, the seal will integrate itself deeply with the target's brain, making removal impossible." Unfortunately, he didn't consider the possibility of any skilled Uzumaki, masters of sealing, to examine the seal and creating its counterseal.

Meanwhile, Neji who was in the hospital has not yet woken up, his injuries included broken ribs, internal bleeding and some scratches, and due to the fact that nobody saw what happened to him, the only reason was that he got blown away by the wind, which somehow everyone felt coming. This will be an internal joke among the Branch Family for years, saying that the heir, who has forgotten his start as a Branch Family member as well, was blown by the wind before he touched Hinata-sama, someone whom they respected due to her gentleness.

-BREAK-

Before Naruto and family could even touch the doorknob to be teleported to their actual house, an ANBU came by before saying to Naruto, "Uzumaki Naruto, the Hokage requests your presence immediately for an important matter." Before shunshining away. Sighing, Naruto told Hinata and Kushina to go to the house and he will handle the matter with Sandaime. Nodding, they both left for their real house, while Naruto disappeared in a flash of lightning.

Appearing in front of the Sandaime, Naruto watched his surrogate grandfather reading his Icha Icha while his clones are busy doing his job. Sighing, Naruto said "You want to see me, jii-san?"

The Sandaime closed his book and stored it somewhere, before saying. "Naruto, I know that you are much, much skilled than what you are letting show. So, In order to further use those skills of yours to improve Konoha, I would, from time to time, give you extra missions while you are in the academy. Consider these missions as some 'errands' that you do for me. Interested?"

Naruto just rubbed his chin, before saying "I think that it is an awesome idea. Utilising my skill while maintaining my cover as a regular ninja in the academy. So when can I start?"

"Right now actually. Ever heard of the Kurama clan?"

"Can't say that I didn't. They specialised in genjutsu, right?"

"Yes. The thing is, one of their members are born with a weak body, but has some of the most powerful version of the clan's bloodline, even enabling her to create genjutsu so powerful that the target's body makes it real. She is potentially the most powerful member of the Kurama clan, but the problem is, her powers are growing day by day due to them taking in a sort of second identity within her named the Ido. She is suppressing her using sheer willpower, but I'm afraid that one day, she might hit a wall, and the Ido will either take over her body, or her genjutsu powers will become uncontrollable."

"So you are asking me to seal away this... Ido thing?"

"Do what you must, except killing her. We need more skilled genjutsu users, and she is a very good one, even potentially better than her current teacher, Yuuhi Kurenai. Such a talent cannot be wasted, and letting it disappear due to her inner demon would be the epitome of waste."

"I understand. I'll check her up. Give me her address."

Naruto then received the address to the Kurama clan, and went over to their clan compound. Reaching the compound, he saw that the compound wasn't that big, about the same size as the Uzumaki-Namikaze compound, signifying the small number of their clan member. The walls of the compound are painted white with a red roof for the gate which has the Kurama clan symbol on it. He then proceeds to knock the gate, and the gate opened, with the head of an old man peeking out of the gate, watching Naruto. "How may I help you, sir?"

"My name is Uzumaki Naruto, a seal master. I am here on Hokage-sama's orders to help a member of your clan, one Kurama Yakumo, with controlling her powers." Naruto said while handing the old man his mission scroll that has the Hokage's sign on it.

"Hmm... I guess that you can enter, seeing that Hokage-sama gave you the mission and all. Come on in." The gate was then opened fully, and Naruto stepped into the Kurama clan compound, which has only one house, though the size is pretty large, taking almost the size of the entire compound. Walking through the house, Naruto suddenly heard the sound of scuffles and went to check, with the old man, Kurama Unkai, following him. Opening a paper door, he saw a pale girl with long brown hair and brown eyes sitting in the seiza position while her parents was also sitting in seiza beside her. Naruto then proceeds to sit in front of the three, with Unkai sitting behind him.

"Hello there, Uzumaki-san. My name is Kurama Murakumo, and this is my wife, Kurama Uroko, with our daughter, Kurama Yakumo. I have been informed that you have been given the mission by Hokage-sama to help her in controlling her powers, is that right?"

"Yes. Here is the mission scroll." Naruto said before handing him the same mission scroll from before. While Murakumo was reading the scroll, Naruto explained what he was about to do. "As you can see, my expertise lies in the creation and maintenance of seals, or in other words, I'm a seal master. I am here to try to see to what extent Yakumo's powers are, and place seals to help her control the power that she contains, if I would be allowed to."

"Uzumaki-san, we are grateful for your assistance on this matter. Please, follow us to our dojo, and I can show you the extent of both her powers and the problem that she suffers from."

Upon reaching the dojo, Yakumo stood in front of Naruto with a paintbrush in hand and a canvas in front of her. "As you can see, the catalyst for her genjutsu are paintings, and most of the time, what she paints can come true, such is her power."

"Hmm... then you can try it on me. Don't worry, I can probably take everything that you send my way and come back for more. In fact, I don't want you to restrain the Ido. Let it free, and I will do everything I can to help you."

Yakumo didn't say a word, not trusting her mouth. Instead, she started painting at high speeds the picture of Naruto burning in flames. Suddenly, the earth around Naruto burst in huge flames, incinerating him. Just when her father was about to run at his position, Naruto suddenly reappeared with no injuries. In fact, even the burning earth from before disappears! "Interesting," Naruto said. "The chakra from your painting attacked me, doing its best to turn the drawing into reality. But combined with my bloodline and my own chakra, the effect failed to materialise, instead creating a genjutsu into the eyes of everyone that watched her. A very amazing technique, but I have to say, if that is all you can do, even my daughter can beat the crap out of you." He then dashed quickly in front of Yakumo, surprising her with his speed, before slamming her forehead with a paralysing seal, causing her to stand at her current position unmoving.

Naruto then creates a seal that he made using the theory of meditation, in which he can enter the mind of someone else through the seal, though it takes a huge amount of chakra due to the seal bypassing one's mental barriers, brute forcing through it using sheer chakra, unlike the more subtle methods used by the Yamanaka clan. And what he saw surprises him. Her mind was a jumble of colours, like someone taking a bunch of water colours and places them in one bucket while stirring them. And within these jumble of colours, he saw that a figure of Yakumo was chained on air, and another, more demonic version of her stood in front of her. This was her Ido, with a tengu-like face and wearing the same clothes as she did, a kimono with the Kurama clan symbol at the front with the same hair colour and length, though ultimately not Yakumo.

"So, you are the Ido, a demonic side of her eh? Well, your days are numbered here and now!" and with that, Naruto charged at the Ido, who only recently realised that her powers did not work towards this person and immediately tried hiding behind Yakumo, trying to turn her into a hostage. But sadly, Naruto saw this coming, and appeared in front of her, dealing a powerful punch to her face, sending her flying away. Sadly, being the dual personality of a body, this causes Yakumo as well to feel like her face has been smashed by a huge rock. At this, Naruto just sweatdropped. He then walked to where the Ido was lying down, before saying to her. "You're going down, bitch. And I'm the one who's going to do so."

He then exited the mindscape, unsealed his sealing kit and started writing seals all over Yakumo's body, observed by her parents of course. The seal that he uses is a variant of the Eight Trigrams seal that his father once used to seal Kurumi within him, a seal to suppress the influence of the Ido while at the same time able to siphon her powers into Yakumo over a span of a couple years, but centering on her second aspect. He also modified the seal, making the suppression better, but the absorption rate increases to only a couple of months, seeing that the Ido is not a bijuu level creature like Kurumi once was.

Naruto then explained the intricacy of the seal to Murakumo who was extremely thankful of Naruto's sealing capabilities. But then, Naruto also said to him, "The reason why Yakumo's body is weak is actually that she has been suppressing the Ido for too long, causing her body to divert the strength necessary for growth towards the suppression of the Ido. Now, with the Ido sealed, drained and will be annihilated later, she can restart her physical training from now on. Best send her into the academy as soon as possible, they have physical training as well there, appropriate to her level. While she didn't go to the academy, you can just train her in genjutsu at home, have her study her clan's arts, whatever. It's much better that way." On his way out, he was hugged by a teary eyed Yakumo, who said that "She has been a burden with me for so long. Thank you, Uzumaki-san. I will never be able to repay you." Naruto just smiles, rubbed her head, before replying "You owe me nothing Yakumo. But if you still would repay me, it is by being the best ninja that you can be and not slacking off in your training, and keep going even when you felt like dying. That is the way for you to repay me."

-BREAK-

Using Hiraishin, Naruto appeared in front of Hiruzen with the scroll in his hand, saying "Mission accomplished, Hokage-sama."

"Good. For now, I have no other errands for you, and it's best for you to go back home, your wives must've been waiting for you." He said while having a blush on his face. Before his thoughts can fly even further down pervert ville, Naruto said, "You perverted old man! We haven't even had sex if penetration's the only thing concerned yet! Me and Hina-chan, I mean! Pull your head out of the gutter!" Naruto then immediately flashed back to his home, leaving the Sandaime with his perverted thoughts.

Back within the safety of his walled and massively trapped compound, Naruto saw that Hinata was sparring with Kushina, and Kushina seemed to enjoy sparring with her, her advancement in both Gentle Fist and chakra control, combined with her basic skill improvement and the fact that her confidence was much, much higher than what it was just three months ago, causes her to be able to be on par with Kushina, even though he knows that Kushina was just matching her capabilities. Even so, Naruto was proud of his second wife, a fact shared by his first, Kurumi, who was sitting beside him, watching the spar between her daughter and Hinata.

"She sure has grown so much, doesn't she?"

"Who are you talking about?"

"Both of them. I never thought that the bloodline that I granted to you will have its heir this fast, not to mention the sheer rate of growth that she was going through due to the hormones the organs secrete."

"Well, yeah. Just look at how fast and big I grow up to be. And I am still nine years old too!"

"Hinata-chan too. Just look at her! When she first came here she was a broken child, cannot even speak without stuttering like an idiot. Yet now, she can go head to head with our daughter, even if she held back, and can even stand up for herself without any problems. I think we have a tendency to attract screwed up people and change them for the better."

"Isn't that a good thing though? The more people we can fix, the better it is for the world to be. Isn't that so?"

"True, but sometimes, we just can't save everyone. I know that you know that. As long as you keep that in mind, there will be no problems for us all."

The spar that they are watching then ended with Hinata using a powerful palm strike on Kushina, sending her staggering back from the hit. "Wow! Hina-mama is so good! That attack sent me back! With my weight, that isn't easy to do!"

Hinata blushed. She still isn't used to getting praises from anyone, no matter how good her confidence gets. "No. I just remembered what your father did during the academy just now and decided to try it, but it drains a lot of chakra, especially with the chakra training seal on."

Indeed, Hinata's chakra, speed and strength has increased massively since she married Naruto, with Naruto not sparing anything during her training, yet guiding her gently and praising her for every success that she gains, causing her to improve even more. Combined with her continuous sparring with both Kushina and Naruto (Though sparring with Naruto didn't help her finding tenketsu, the chakra armour was too thick. Only with Kurumi will she be able to see tenketsus), she was more than capable of taking on even most chuunins using taijutsu alone.

Yet, Kurumi haven't yet started her in training anything other than chakra control, seeing how important chakra control is to her Gentle Fist style. But she haven't even started in her elemental training, considering that she won't learn any other jutsus until she can get more chakra, or better chakra control. Even now, a clone of hers was performing chakra control exercises, walking on water while balancing a kunai on her hand. She still wants to develop her Gentle Fist style together with the encouragement of both Naruto and Kurumi, saying that it's her birthright to learn Gentle Fist, and the whole family will do the best for her to master it.

After a while, Naruto ended the training session, once again healing Hinata and restoring her stamina, with Kushina running towards her mother, getting a hug from Kurumi. "Mama! Hina-mama is very strong! She can spar against me for a while, even with the seal stopping her!" Kurumi just smiles and played with her daughter's hair. "Of course. Your Hina-mama's skills are getting even better. Those from her original clan didn't even know what they're missing when they banished her."

"Those people are bad people right mom?"

"Yes. They liked to torture children like you, so beware of them. Your Hina-mama said that her sister will change the clan, but for now, avoid them."

"Okay mama!" she replied cheerfully.

-BREAK-

The next day, Naruto, Hinata and Kushina was walking towards the academy when Kushina realised that the villagers are giving all of them glares that seems like they wanted them all dead. At this, Kushina realised that what her dad told her before going back to Konoha was true, and they just didn't know due to them thinking that her father's dead. And now that her father's alive and everyone knows it, they're back to glaring at him. Remembering her promise to her dad, she didn't do anything to them, though her cheerfulness was replaced with a feeling of sorrow, thinking of why her dad was shunned this way by the population that he swore to protect, no matter what they did to him. It almost caused her to cry.

Feeling her sadness, Naruto just patted her head, and said to her. "Kushi-chan, you didn't have to worry about these people. The whole family will prove to them later that we are not something to fear, but we are guardians that will guard them."

Still feeling tears in her eyes, Kushina slowly nodded to her father, before she listened to the villagers.

"Look at that, the demon child's back."

"But he's much, much bigger now! My daughter told me last night!"

"And look, the whore that had a child with him."

"But she's very young! There's no way that can be his child!"

"Maybe that's his demonic side showing!"

"But she's so cute! A very happy girl too! Soft cheeks, cute whisker marks, even her hair was soft, like fur!"

Hearing this, Kushina jumped from her father's head and rushed towards the woman that said the last sentence. The rest of the villagers didn't even have the time to dash away when Kushina reached her, surprising her. But to everyone's surprise, Kushina hugged the woman's leg.

"Thank you! Thank you miss! Thank you for not hating us!" she said, while the tears that she blocked from falling broke through her defences and fell to the women's leg unbidden. The woman, startled, just did what someone did when a kid cried on your legs; she bent down and hugged her, patting her crimson hair while saying soothing words. At this, Kushina cried even harder, snuggling her sniffling face into the women's shoulder. At this sight, the rest of the people thought "Are we wrong of them? That kid even thanked her for not hating her!"

But then, a villager screamed "Why are you hugging her!? A demon spawn like her should be killed! Not be treated normally!"

The women, feeling that Kushina's sniffling has decreased, said to the man, "You're wrong! Did you see this?! This cute, little kid didn't even hate us! In fact, she did not do anything towards me! Are we wrong in our thoughts for so long?"

"No! You have been poisoned by the demon's magic! Get away from her everyone! Purge her!"

The crowd, riled up by this one man, started to throw rocks towards Kushina and the women. The women tried to stand up and run away, but before she can do that, Kushina turned her back towards the mob while hugging the women, causing the rocks to hit her back, tearing her orange jacket and hitting her body and her head. Still, she did not let up, and held the women at the same spot, protecting her from the rocks with her small body. And then, once the man made hailstorm stopped, she turned back towards the people, her back still facing the women she protected just now.

"ALL OF YOU! IF YOU WANT TO HURT ME THEN JUST HURT ME! DON'T INVOLVE ANYONE ELSE! SHE DIDN'T DO ANYTHING TOWARDS YOU! HATE ME, BUT DON'T HATE HER!" she said, her tears still falling from her eyes.

"Then I'll do just that! Get ready to die, demon!" a villager cried before lifting a butcher's knife and rushed at her. But before he could chop Kushina with it, he was stopped by the sudden appearance of the figure of Naruto, who grabbed his hand, stopping him. Tilting his head, he saw Naruto's burning blue eyes trying to kill him with his stare, almost making him pass out from the sheer killing intent that he emits.

"I have no problem if you attacked me. No worries. But attack my family, or a bystander, and I will tear your innards, rip out your organs and feast on your brain. Is. That. Clear?" Naruto slowly said.

The man, who was shaking in his shoes, just nodded before running away as fast as he can, screaming incoherently. Naruto then walked back towards Kushina before lifting her up on his shoulders and said, "Kushi-chan, let's go. We're going to be late to the academy." He then went to the women who Kushina protected just now, bowed down before saying, "Thank you for not hating my daughter. She means the world for me, and you just shown her that anyone can have a change of heart. For that, I thank you. Here, I'll help you up." He then grabbed the women's arm before lifting her up, and left her standing there, the sight that she just saw causes her to rethink her opinions of the so-called demon child.

On their walk towards the academy, Kushina said, "Dad, now I understand what you meant by the villagers' hatred for us. I will make sure that they will know our true heart, dad! Believe it!" Naruto just chuckled and continued his walk towards his side.

At his side, Hinata was thinking of the sight that she just saw. z"It seems the villagers have been treating the like this for a while before Naru-kun left. With the news of his return, they will undoubtedly make our life harder. But I will endure that! With Naru-kun at my side, I will have no problem going through this!" Hinata silently pledged within her heart.

-BREAK-

Classes and life in general for the Uzumakis, continued as usual, though the students now no longer came close to the family, with the warnings that their parents gave out. Though the clan heirs still talked to them, their parents knowing of the sealing and its effect, though they never knew about the hanyou parts. Neji has not yet came out of the hospital, and the Hyuugas are pissed off that they cannot find any proof of Naruto's attack towards Neji. Today, the end of the week has arrived, and all the students are preparing themselves for a spar among their same age group. After picking numbers, Hinata was paired with Sakura, Kushina with Kiba, Naruto with Sasuke, Shino with Chouji and Ino with Shikamaru, and the rest of the civilians together with other civilians. Naruto smells a setup, but decided not to act on it.

"Alright, when the pairs are called, you must enter the ring and make the sign of confrontation, as a sign of duelling with honour, and you must make the sign of peace afterwards, to show that there are no animosities among the two of you, no matter who's the winner. The winner will be chosen depending on timeout of five minutes, a knockout or someone stepped out of the ring. Only taijutsu is allowed, both academy and clans'! Is that clear?" everyone nodded. "Now the first pair, Uzumaki Hinata vs Haruno Sakura! Both students please stand in the circle."

Sakura and Hinata then walked towards different sides of the circle and made the sign of confrontation before settling in their respective stances, Hinata in the starting stance of the Gentle Fist, while Sakura in the textbook academy style.

"Begin!" Iruka said, and Hinata dashed forward, completely astounding Sakura with her speed, before rapidly closing her tenketsus, causing Sakura to topple on the ground, knocked out without managing a single action. "It seems that even my sealed speed was faster than what most students can achieve. This is going to be hard, hiding my skills." Hinata then made the sign of peace before unblocking Sakura's tenketsu and lifted her up to the spectator's area. "I hope that there are no hard feelings from that, Sakura-san."

"H-how did you get so fast!? And how did you know the Gentle Fist? I thought that was a Hyuuga only taijutsu."

"Naruto-kun trained my speed and strength well, if I were to say so. Train some more and even you can be as strong as I am. To answer that last part, I was once the heiress of the Hyuuga clan, and was trained in the Gentle Fist, though I was banished from the clan due to my own weakness, or so they perceived it as such. After getting married with Naru-kun and being trained by him, then I got my skills to the point that you just experienced. You can even be better than me, just train yourself harder. I trained every day to exhaustion without fail. Even now, unseen, I am still training."

Hearing this, Sakura's eyes widened, and then promised to herself that she'll train herself better from now on, so that she will not be beaten as fast as she was just now.

"Alright! Next pair, Uzumaki Kushina and Inuzuka Kiba, please step forward into the ring!" the redheaded superhuman girl and the brown haired Inuzuka stepped into the arena and sniffed the air. "The smell of foxes are really strong from you, your father and Hinata-chan over there. Is your family taking care of foxes or something?" before Kushina can answer, he continued. "Well, whatever. I do not want to fight a girl, fox smell or not, so please surrender." Kushina just smiles, a smile that felt so sinister that Akamaru, a white, fluffy nin-dog that Kiba owns and uses as his partner, jumped out of his jacket and ran away from her, barking like mad all the way. Feeling confused, Kiba just shrugged his shoulders and stood within his clan's stance, feet closed and crouched with both hands bent in the shape of claws, ready to claw anyone that attacks.

"Begin!" and just like the match before, Kushina disappeared, before sending a powerful elbow into Kiba's stomach, knocking him out. His face was still in a state of shock when he's knocked out. The rest of the crowd was gaping, their jaws on the floor. Naruto just grinned, knowing of her daughter's strength. Plus, Kiba just insulted her, and she never takes kindly to people like that. They tend to get punished. She then walked away, leaving Kiba on the ground. The other students was forced to lift Kiba up and brought him to the academy's doctor to be healed.

Iruka was rubbing his brows to stop the impending headache. He just knows that messing with the Uzumakis are a bad idea, no matter who you are. He was still confused as of how Naruto attacked Neji early this week without everyone seeing him do so. Opting to just continue the spar, Iruka called the next pair another Uzumaki, this time, the father, Uzumaki Naruto against the second heir to the Uchiha clan, Uchiha Sasuke. After making the sign of confrontation, the two of them stood in their respective stance, Sasuke the stance used by his family, the Intercepting Fist, while Naruto stood in a very peculiar stance, feet shoulder length apart, legs straight, and arms crossed on his chest.

As soon as Iruka said the signal to start, Sasuke immediately dashed towards Naruto, intent on finishing the battle quickly. He sent a number of punches into Naruto's stomach before recoiling back, his knuckles red. "What's with this guy!? Punching him felt like punching steel! there is no way someone can have literal torso of steel!" with that in mind, Sasuke kept sending wave after wave of attack, all broke harmlessly over his body like so much air. Even punching his balls felt like punching a rock! Then, Sasuke saw Naruto uncrossing his arm and went in for a straight to Naruto's chest.

It was over in a second. The first moment, Naruto was standing there, uncrossing his arms, the next, Sasuke was on the ground, his arm pulled behind his back and his face eating dirt. Being declared the victor, he released Sasuke, who just did the sign of peace, and walked towards the spectators, his mind still spinning due to his defeat. "I didn't even see him move! What happened just now? It's like he was there, and then I'm eating earth! He is fast!" Before he can ponder any further, Naruto spoke to him. "Sasuke, I know that you lost just now. But don't get angry at me for losing. Instead, use it as motivation to catch up to me. Remember that one's clan didn't make the person. Only by doing so can you be a powerful person."

Sasuke just grunted before walking back towards the spectators' area, his loss still weighing heavily in his mind. The next match between Shino and Chouji was over quickly, with Chouji surrendering due to his dislike of the idea of hitting someone. Being the target of bullies, he knows better than anyone that being beat up is never fun. The match between Ino and Shikamaru was also one that was over quickly with Shikamaru surrendering due to "It's too troublesome to hit a girl", that causes Ino to rush forward to pummel him to the ground, but was interrupted by Iruka declaring that she won. The rest of the matches continued, and after that, the sparring session, and so does classes for the day was over.

-BREAK-

A couple of months has passed after the spar, and now, life really has it in for the Uzumaki-Namikazes. Now, even Kurumi can't go out to town without being harassed. Not that they can do anything, though it still pisses them off. Kushina was no longer liked by the people, causing her to become sad and depressed every time they came back to their home, though the same lady that liked her is the only one who would talk to her, alleviating her depression a little. She spent most of her non-training time hugging her father and mother, crying in their arms, though she vowed to get stronger. Also, Hinata was also hounded by some Hyuugas who wants to kill her just because she survives, though for some reason, her seal failed to react with their handseal, though Hiashi's insistence that there are no seal masters good enough to unravel the Caged Bird seal exists in the world.

Even so, not everything was bad. Kurumi seems to have grown into her role of a Kage-level housewife, being capable of not just sparring with Naruto, but also to act as his confidant, training partner and lover, and a great cook too. Her cooking was one of the things that Naruto looked forward to after an entire day of sparring with the not-so-old man Hiruzen, with her simple Special Miso Ramen being his favourite. Meanwhile, Hinata, now with a very mean Gentle Fist capability, had improved massively than what they all expected, courtesy of Naruto's insanely powerful training, that without either a very good med nin or someone with purified youki beside her, would definitely cause her to die. Due to the seals that she had on her, her speed and strength has increased massively, especially because they auto adjusts themselves and Naruto kept healing her after their training sessions.

Both Kurumi and Naruto, seeing such a rapid rate of enhancement in Hinata, deduced that the reason for it is not just due to the seals, but also due to the life force chakra, the purified youki used to heal her. Maybe the chakra was used so often with her that she can either use it herself, or that the restoring capabilities of the purified youki was also enhancing her body as well, not just the seals. As a result, she has become much stronger, and is definitely high chuunin level, almost reaching jounin levels if not for her lack of ninjutsu training. To remedy this, Hinata has started on her elemental chakra training, supervised by Kurumi. She had water element as her primary, and a very small wind element.

Also, due to her training, her chakra has grown to jounin level if the seal was cancelled, and Naruto also wanted her to gain huge chakra reserves, knowing how much it will help in the future. She also didn't stop with her chakra control training, seeing that the more chakra she had, the worse her control gets. Now, Naruto was aiming to teach her the Air Palm, Rotation or the Sixty-Four Palms, and he suggests that she learns the Air Palm, since the skill can both act as an attack or a defence, depending on how it is used.

But just as Naruto was about to start teaching Hinata the Air Palms, a tingle at the back of his mind alerted him that someone was in front of his near permanently trashed fake house, and is requesting entry. Creating a clone to train Hinata after explaining to her what happened, he Hiraishined immediately to his fake house, right behind the unsuspecting male ANBU with a boar mask before tapping his shoulder.

"And how may I help you, ANBU-san?"

"Hokage-sama has called you to his office immediately."

"Alright. I'll be there in a while."

The ANBU then shunshined away, while Naruto created two clones that will tell his family of his disappearance. He then hiraishined to the old man's office, and immediately asked "Hey old man, what do you need me for this time?"

"Oh, Naruto. Good. I actually need you to run some more 'errands', both of them seal related."

"Oh really? Then tell me of these... 'errands'."

"The first errand is about one ninja under my command. Have you heard of Mitarashi Anko?"

"The Snake Mistress of Konoha? Why?"

"Well, she was once Orochimaru's student, and before Orochimaru became a missing nin, one of his last act was to place a certain seal on her, the Cursed Seal of Heaven. A restraining seal was placed over it by Jiraiya, but it never stops the corrupting influence of the seal, causing her to become sadistic and a bit bloodthirsty, other than whispering thoughts of leaving Konoha to go to her old master again. For now, she has been resisting the seal quite well, but as you might know, one can only go so long just on willpower."

"So you want me to take a look at this... Curse Seal of Heaven and eliminate it if possible?"

"Yes, and place a more powerful seal on it if not possible. The other job is to improve Konoha's defences. The walls and the patrols are good, but there needs to be another method in enemy detection. Konoha has its own sensoring barrier capable of detecting any enemy that tries to enter its detection space. However, it has not been maintained for a long time. Even Jiraiya cannot do much for it. I'm hoping that it is possible for you to improve the defences, use some seals or any method you deem necessary. I'll assign you an ANBU, code name Tenzou to follow you and make sure any of your commands are followed and anything you want built be built. I will also give you this scroll that allows your orders to be followed as if they are from me. Tenzou will also be a watchdog, in that he will make sure that your orders are for the good of the village."

Keeping the fact about Tenzou making sure that stuff that needs building are built, Naruto then said, "Well jiji, guess I can't say no to those missions. Though for the Anko mission, it's better if Kurumi-chan's the one who does it, since it might be more comfortable with Anko having a women remove the seal. How about that?"

"I guess that that's a pretty good idea. I'll have Anko be here in a while."

"Great! I'll fetch Kurumi in the meanwhile." And with that, Naruto disappeared to pick Kurumi up from the compound to meet Anko and the Sandaime, while with the snap of a finger, an ANBU came to pick Anko up from wherever she is, most probably at the dango stall.

-BREAK-

After a moment, Kurumi appeared within the arms of Naruto, still whining due to Sandaime interrupting her spar with Hinata, and a moment later, Mitarashi Anko appeared beside Naruto, wearing her usual ensemble of tan overcoat with body fitting mesh suit and miniskirt. Kurumi, still wearing her sparring clothes which consist of a black shirt, black short with a red lining and with her waist length red hair tied at the back, then saw Anko before saying, "So you're the one who has the Cursed Seal eh?"

Hearing this, Anko almost charged at Kurumi, before hearing the Sandaime said, "Anko, stand down. Kurumi here is the first wife of Uzumaki Naruto, a seal master, with herself being a seal master as well, and she is going to try to remove the seal from you. At the very least, I told her to place a stronger seal on you to suppress the seal."

Anko immediately grabbed her neck where the seal resides, before saying, "Hah! As if a civilian can do that! No civilian has the skills required to even touch me, let alone this seal, yet you claim to be able to remove it? Where does that confidence ca-" her words were cut short when she was suddenly on the ground with Kurumi standing atop her body, one foot on her lower back with one hand placing a seal on her upper back. Surprised at this, the ANBUs, four in total immediately appeared before placing their tantos on her neck, yet, Kurumi didn't even look fazed.

She then suddenly said, "I may be a civilian, heck, I am Naru-kun's first wife, yet..." and with that, she disappeared before all the ANBU finds themselves on the ground, restrained by seals placed on their chests, suppressing their chakra and prevents movement, both at once. She then continued to whisper to Anko "...I actually am a Kage-level civilian, and the only reason for me to not go into battle with my Naru-kun is that I want to be the home where he and our kids come back, the place where they can confide and cry on, and be their holding place when the world is against them. Do NOT take me as a weakling. Even Sarutobi can prove that, and thus the reason why he didn't bother me."

Sarutobi just sighed, he knew how strong she is. He sparred with her once in a while and her vast experience as a thousands of year old being shows during that. He can't even touch her sometimes, and he was considered the God of Shinobi! He should give that title to someone who is the daughter to the REAL God of Shinobi, the Sage of Six Paths. But he still has his own pride, and he will not let the title go without a fight. Anyway, after that sigh, Kurumi just released Anko and the ANBUs, the seals made using her chakra causes them to disappear at a moment's notice.

Anko, remembering the sight of Kurumi's skills, then said, "You can remove this seal? This... mark was on me for a long time, and the best anyone can do so far is to place a seal on it to suppress it. This mark of a traitor has caused me immense grief... You really can remove it?" with a very desperate voice, tears almost breaking out and her lips quivering.

Hearing such hopelessness coming from a supposedly strong willed kunoichi, she hugged her gently, letting her cry in her warm embrace, not sparing anything in order to calm her down. After a while, she calms down, before standing up, taking out a kunai, licking it erotically, and said, "Any of you who speaks of this sight, I will castrate him with a rusty spoon that's on fire! You got that?!"

All the men just grabbed their balls, silently nodding to the crazy kunoichi. She then left with Kurumi, who went to Kurumi's clan compound to handle her seal. Naruto meanwhile, was accompanied by the ANBU Tenzou to go to the barrier seal centre.

-BREAK (WITH KURUMI)-

Along the way to her mansion, Kurumi saw that she was shunned along the way there. The people, knowing of her apprenticeship to Orochimaru, shunned and hated her because of her association to him, even when she's one of the most loyal and skilled ninja that Konoha had. It brought her memories back towards the time when she's still caged within Naruto, and her fist clenched. Trying to prevent the possible bloodshed that might occur in the future, she sped herself up, forcing Anko to catch up with her. After a while, they reached the rundown apartment that they pretended to live in. Seeing the dilapidated sight of the building causes Anko to whistle, before saying.

"Damn! And I thought I lived in a bad house! You, him, his other wife and your daughter all lived in here?" If there is one thing Anko is not known for, it's tact. Yet, Kurumi just smiles, not replying anything, until they reached the door to the house. "Hold my hand," Kurumi said to Anko. Seeing no harm in this act, Anko held Kurumi's hand, before Kurumi touched the doorknob. Then suddenly, Anko felt like she was being turned in a washing machine's spin cycle with all her organs shifted to different locations, causing her to feel dizzy as all hell, before she felt her feet touch solid ground and throws up. After a while, she said "W-w-what the hell was that?! I felt like shit!" Kurumi just smiled and answered "So that was your first experience in Hiraishin transportation eh? Gets the new ones all the time. Anyway, here's our real home. That was just a cover for us so that the villagers didn't attack us."

The compound left Anko speechless. Not just the sheer size of it, the fact that the gardens in front of the main house had a whole bunch of colourful flowers and a fountain is what left Anko gaping. Watching her charge gape like that causes Kurumi to giggle, before saying "You know, this is what happens when a Kage-level housewife gets bored during the days. She gardens." Anko, who was still stupefied at the sheer beauty of the garden, with its multi coloured flowers, the butterflies flying around, the beautifully sculpted fountain with a small hut beside it was then pulled by Kurumi towards the main house, where she was immediately brought to the room that Naruto designates as his sealing laboratory.

Once inside the room, Kurumi activates a seal on the wall beside it, which turns the entire room into a room of whiteness, no door, no nothing. Kurumi then unseals a sealing set from her forearm, before creating Shadow Clones that starts to paint the walls and floor with massive amounts of seals, which Anko can't read heads or tails about. After a while, the clones finished painting the seals and they disappeared without a trace, the sign of someone with extremely good chakra control. Anko was still staring at the seals on the walls which causes the previously completely white walls to become stained with the mark of various seals for uses unknown with a circle of white right in the middle of the seal formation when Kurumi spoke. "Those seals are chakra, noise, motion and a lot of other combination of seals that can probably suppress even a bijuu. Now let's see what your seal consists of. I need you to be completely naked for that, in case the seals spread somewhere else and we didn't know it. Don't worry, there is no one in here except for me and you, and you have nothing to hide from me."

Anko just nodded, knowing that this person here won't lie to her, before unbuckling her belt, removing her skirt, her mesh shirt, shin guards, shoes and her overcoat, and also her hair tie, for good measure, revealing her body, much more scarred than any women her age ought to be, the sign of a great kunoichi. It also shows her C-cup boobs, and the violet hair of her pussy. Kurumi just looked at her from top to bottom, before doing so again, and nodded for no apparent reason. Anko suddenly felt like she's a piece of meat, and said "Well, what are you waiting for!? Let's get this show on the road already!"

"Nothing. Just admiring the body of a strong kunoichi. I think you can be a good sparring partner for Hina-chan. She really needs someone like you to spar against. And not to mention that you are beautiful, really." Hearing this causes Anko to blush, before she continued. "However, we are here today to see this Cursed Seal of yours, and not just to look at your body. And for that, I need you to lie down in this white circle of the seals."

Nodding, Anko lied in the middle of the room where there are no seals, before her shoulder was looked at by Kurumi. The seal looked like three tomoes in a circular configuration was surrounded by a ring of squiggles, a simple Evil Suppression seal (though actually, for someone else, that seal was much more complex than how she saw it) to suppress the seal's influence. "You must've been in a lot of pain due to this seal. The Evil Suppression seal may stop the advancement of the seal, but it never completely eradicates it, causing the seal's influence to still reach you. Don't worry, Naru-kun already explained the situation to me, and I agreed do to anything can to annihilate the seal, though I will need to remove the suppression seal and activate it for me to be able to destroy the seal. Is that okay with you, Anko-chan?"

Anko just nodded, agreeing to the procedure. "Okay! I will start the procedure now, so you might need to brace for pain. Unfortunately I have no items that you can bite to remove the pain, so-"

"There's a leather block in one of my coat's pocket. I know that bringing it would come in handy today."

Kurumi then took the block before handing it over to Anko, who bit it, bracing herself for the pain that was about to come. Kurumi then painted a bunch of seals on the suppression seal, before running through a couple of handsigns and presses her now glowing fingers to the seal. "Release!" She cried, and the Evil Suppression seal slowly disappears, before multiple tomoe marking spread from the original seal throughout her own body, corrupting her chakra and causing a wave of unearthly chakra to explode from her. Meanwhile, Kurumi was busy analysing the seal at its origin point, and was surprised at what she found.

"The arrays used for this seal are not complicated. In fact, the creator somehow brute-forces any problem that he found using a certain injection of nature chakra and a... what's this? This looks like a storage seal, but somehow... it doesn't seem to store items, but the seal arrangements and runes are like the ones that dad's soul shard made for me and Naruto... wait. That's it! It's meant to store someone's soul shard! But this is one hell of a way to brute-force it. It's like he ripped his soul and places it in here, where that soul shard, combined with the seal array, controls a certain function of the seal that causes her chakra to change...The problem now is that the seal is too far intertwined with Anko-chan's chakra network to remove it.. The seal is shabby, and from what I can see, the only way to remove it is to defeat or destroy the soul shard. But after that it needs a new controller for that part of the seal, or she'll go berserk due to the nature chakra coursing through that seal, somehow corrupted due to both the soul shard and the part of the seal that absorbs both the nature chakra and binds it to the owner. Nature chakra is naturally dangerous, but this seems deliberate by the creator. It's like he wants the user to go crazy. But considering Orochimaru is the one who creates this, it's no wonder that the seal is this bad in both execution and design. Can't argue that he's a genius though. Brute forcing something like this should be impossible. And removing it seems to be dangerous, so the better way is to either intertwine it even more with her chakra system, or to kill her. It seems that the advantage that it provides is too good to be removed. But I need to remove the rest of the failsafes first. There's the killswitch, the immobilizer seal, the seal that absorbs her chakra and suppresses it, even the tracking seals. Though all of them are shoddy. Even the Hyuuga's are much better than this. So the best way is to remove the failsafes, then divert the control array of the seal to her mind instead of to the soul shard, place a strong influence suppressing seal to prevent the converting array's mysterious power from making Anko-chan crazy, and to change the chakra suppressor to act like Hinata-chan's seal, also, another layer of activateable chakra suppressor on top, because her chakra is going to increase so much due to the seal constantly sucking her chakra has stopped, and even enhances it a bit with nature chakra. She's gonna be even more of a powerhouse, properly trained. So she'll need it to go to infiltration missions. Also, need to hide the seal a bit, and need to figure out what to do with the soul shard. The rest, a Shadow Clone would be enough."

She then immediately created a Shadow Clone which immediately starts the process of editing and changing the seal, while Kurumi meditates to think of a way to either remove that soul shard, or to replace it with something else. "What about both? From our studies of our mate mark seals, Naruto and I found a way to link souls using seals. Father is definitely the most powerful seal master ever existed. Anyway, by using the same array with the kanji for 'soul' as its base, I can extract that soul shard, but it still needed a place to be stored in, or it will just jump to the nearest person that it found. Also, I need to replace the soul shard, and I think the purified youki can do the job. I'll place about three of my tails' worth of power into the seal, in case something happened, the sheer power of the purified youki should be able to overcome such troubles. I'll figure out what to do with the soul shard later, now I need to remove it first after my clone finished the editing of the other parts of the seal."

By this time, Anko was trying her best to not scream while her chakra was being corrupted by the seal and is causing her so much pain, and she was slowly failing to do so. The clone then finished rearranging and recreating parts of the seal while she's under such intense pain, and starts to create a series of seals using her chakra on air to pull the soul shard out of the seal. When Naruto and Kurumi both realised that the mark on their chests are a type of seal, they immediately tried to unravel the secrets behind it during their studies of seals. Needless to say, modern sealing arts didn't even compare to the ones that the Sage uses, even if they are Uzumakis. They only managed to decipher about 15% of the seal, the sheer complexity of it boggles both their mind. Though the main part that they managed to learn from it is the so called soul seal, a modification towards ones soul that allows them to put a seal directly into one's soul, though they only know the basics.

Once the chakra soul barrier, which looks like a sphere made of bluish chakra suspended on the clone's hand via chakra control and has multiple markings of chakra seals on it, is ready, the clone then places the sphere, which starts the size of a watermelon, but slowly shrinks to the size of the tomoe marking of the Cursed Seal when placed on it, before a purplish chakra flowed into the sphere, slowly being absorbed by the soul barrier.

Meanwhile, Kurumi was gathering three of her tails' worth of purified youki to replace Orochimaru's soul shard into her palms, which now looks like a contained ball of golden flames with six black spiral markings, one on top, one on the bottom, and four on the sides, situated 90 degrees of each other and connected via thick black lines. Naruto and Kurumi were still confused by the chakra's looks, since whenever they activate it, a lot of weird patterns appeared on the chakra's location. They have totally no idea why that happens, but it sure makes for an awesome sight.

Once she finished gathering the power into her palms, she waited for the clone holding the soul shard to finish the absorption. Once the absorption was finished, the clone immediately pulled the sphere of purple chakra, which was slowly coalescing into a figure of something, out of the seal and Kurumi immediately slammed the chakra into the seal, immediately compressing it into the seal's patters, before shouting "Seal!" while continuing to place both her palms on the seal.

The result was instantaneous. The purplish chakra that was flowing from Anko changed immediately into a golden colour which causes her to gasp, before the feeling of immense pain from the seal becomes a relaxing feeling circulates throughout her body, causing her arms to gain a line of golden flames starting from the seal, to the arms and ends in a spiral pattern on her palm, which was also mirrored by her right arm, except that the line starts at the seal, passes behind her neck before going through her shoulder and split right at her spine, going straight to her tailbone, ended in a spiral pattern and split to both her legs, and another line that went to her head. Another line also spread from the seal to her heart, where a spiral symbol appeared.

This change was a welcome yet totally unexpected by both Kurumi and Anko, both who are gaping at the sight. A moment later, Anko lifted her hand up and observed the markings on her body, feeling extremely interested at it, and she also felt stronger than she ever was. Testing her motions, checking whether anything of hers are broken or lost, she stood, revealing the golden markings with all their glory, while also checking out where else the markings spread to. Kurumi and her clone was still gaping at this point, not noticing that Orochimaru's chakra that the clone was holding has now coalesced into a figure of a white snake with Orochimaru's head as its head. After a while, Anko decided that the silence due to her seal was a bit too much, and spoke.

"Okay. Whatever you did to the seal changed it into... this. Whatever this is, it made me felt better than ever before. In fact, I never felt this great my whole life! I felt like I can kick the old man's ass, and come back for more! And my chakra is so much more than ever before!" she said while still looking around her body to look at the seal's effects. "And not just that, the markings, weird as they are, look cool too!" She then looked at Kurumi, before asking. "Uh... Hey there, you okay?" before touching her shoulders.

This snapped Kurumi out of her funk, before she shook her head and says, "Uh, yeah. I never expected that to happen though. Not in a million years. I was hoping that the purified youki would act as a new controller for the seal, allowing for you to use the seal without any pain and the corrupting influence, but it just changed the power source as a whole too. And gives you about... I'd say Kage-level chakra. You need to retrain your chakra control though, it's gonna suck initially."

"Purified youki? What's that?"

"Hmm... there's no good way to explain it, so here goes. You know of the bijuus?"

"Of course! Who didn't!?"

"Well, here's the thing..." and with that, Kurumi launches into an explanation of the bijuus, their mates and a whole lot of other stuff which takes hours. By the end of the explanation, Kurumi was tired, and Anko had her jaws on the floor. She recollected herself before saying.

"So you're actually the Kyuubi, found a great mate in Naruto, became a hanyou, and gave birth to a child while keeping the purified youki from the Juubi's remnants that you are?"

"Yes. Also, you better not say anything of this to anyone. Until the time comes, this is a secret so huge that it can shake the world."

"Tell me about it. Don't worry, the secret is safe with me."

"I hope so. Anyway, the seal's changes are complete, though it still looks like the old one for some reason. But at least that allows us to cover up the fact that the seal's changed against possible spies."

"Yeah. I'd like that. Gives me an advantage against enemies."

"Well, I guess you'll need to train your new skills, and retrain your old ones, considering the chakra absorption effect of the old seal is gone, causing your chakra to gain a massive increase. Make sure you retrain your chakra control and your elemental chakra control."

"Will do. I am forever in your debt for this. But now, what should we do with that?"

Kurumi looked at what she was pointing at, and looked at the white snake her clone held. "Hmm... Orochimaru's soul shard eh...? Well, better store it, in case it might be needed sometime later."

"What do you mean by 'store it'?"

"I mean, use it and place the shard in an inanimate object. Can also be used somewhat like a voodoo doll later. Just need a proper human-like effigy."

And with that, she ran through some handsigns, before the entire room cleared up, and become the original room once more before they left. Kurumi immediately told Kushina to gather some straw or wood from around the house, and create a human-like figure of it. Once the figure was complete, the clone then pushed the soul shard into the figure, made of sticks, straws with some strings tied to prevent it from breaking up. This caused the figure to glow with a sickly purple glow, before it settles.

"There. Now, we can use this doll to either know what Orochimaru is doing, though it's going to be a bit hard, or we can torture him from afar, like so." She then stabbed the doll with her clawed finger.

-OVER IN OTOGAKURE...-

Orochimaru, the infamous missing nin from Konoha was busy looking at his research notes about immortality and the Sharingan when a massive pain, which felt like a giant claw tore through his body, causing him to keel over and felt like he almost died. "Impossible! I cannot die! What was that anyway?"

-BACK IN KONOHA...-

"Okay, that's enough. I'm very sure that he felt that, no matter how, and for now, it's better if we were to place it in a secure area, and there is nowhere more secure than our vaults." The vaults of the Uzumaki-Namikaze clan was made by Minato himself, with more seals than the barriers around the Hokage tower. Such a place is the best place to store such a thing, surrounded by massive numbers of suppression and restraining seals.

Anko, on a scene of never before seen humility, bowed down to Kurumi, before saying. "I am in your debt for life for removing this stain from me. I am yours to command, as long as it doesn't go against the Hokage's wishes."

"Get up Anko-chan. If there is something I want you to do, it is to be Kushi-chan and Hina-chan's sparring partner. They'll need a strong kunoichi like you to be their role model, and I'm sure that you want to train your new powers. Who else than someone who had those powers from birth?"

"Hmmm... I guess that that's a good idea. I'm fine with that. How am I going to enter the compound anyway?"

"Well, I'll place a signalling seal on you, so that when Hina-chan or Kushi-chan can spar, we'll signal you. It'll feel like a needle prick, and you can signal us back using the same seal, then I or Naru-kun will pick you up. Is that fine?"

"I guess so. Heck, you can tattoo any seal you want on me as long as it didn't harm me if you so want to."

Kurumi then proceeds to tattoo the signalling seal on Anko, before grabbing her and taking her outside the mansion, only now noticing that it's dark. "Huh. We've been doing the seals for a while eh? About 10 hours."

"Yeah. Well, I gotta go now. I'll come back later to train with you guys. Later!" and with that, Anko left the ruined apartment building and went back to her home, still giddy with the prospect of the seal's changes.

-WITH NARUTO A COUPLE OF HOURS AGO...-

Naruto was currently walking with Tenzou towards the Konoha Sealing Barrier centre underneath the Hokage Tower to check on, or add to the sensory capabilities of the barrier. Before he left, he created hundreds of Shadow Clones that went everywhere. Looking at Tenzou, and feeling the air of confusion around him, Naruto said, "Those clones went to do simple defence improvements: trap seals, strengthening seals on the walls, massive self repair seals, chakra absorption seals combined with jutsu cancellation seals, among others."

"That last part, what kind of seal was that?"

"Oh that? That was a seal that me and Kurumi recreated from her father's skill, a combination of seals that allows a jutsu's chakra be absorbed into the seal, causing the jutsu itself to become useless. Though an impact from say, a Doton jutus would still hit, but that's what the strengthening seals are for."

"The chakra, what will it be used for then?"

"The absorbed chakra will be used to power the seals at the walls, and will cause the walls to be even stronger the more chakra flows into the seals. It is meant to be a self sustaining seal based defence that can take anything that came at it and use it back towards the enemy. That is what all those clones are for."

Understanding the reason for the clones, Tenzou stayed silent and both of them continued their walk through the Hokage tower, with Tenzou receiving salutes from any ANBU member that saw him. After a while, they reached the centre, located underground beneath the Hokage Tower and had a massive, solid door that can only be opened by someone with the right passkey. Naruto then entered the passkey, which consists of a card key engraved with the Hokage's chakra and the password, before the door, engraved with the symbol for Konoha's Barrier Team, slid upwards, revealing the sensor chamber for the detection system, which consists of a huge sphere of water in the middle of the room, with a square formation of conical pillars in front of it, with three person around it, all of them wearing white robes with one of them sitting in the middle of the square pillar formation and the other two flanking him. The intercept team was currently playing cards without a care in the world at the upper levels of the detection chamber, a sight that causes Naruto's blood to boil.

The barrier team was happily playing cards when suddenly, without a warning, a massive KI crashed upon them all, causing them to jump up to counter any attacks that came towards them, their previous card game forgotten. Looking around, all that they saw is an ANBU and a blonde giant, one whom they recognizes as Uzumaki Naruto, the resident pariah, and now a big guy. Feeling confused, they almost lowered their guard when Naruto shouted, "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU ALL DOING?! ARE YOU EVEN DOING YOUR JOB!? HOW CAN YOU BE PLAYING CARDS ON DUTY?!"

The intercept squad was about to blow Naruto off when the ANBU took out a scroll, before saying, "By order of the Hokage of Konoha, this person, Uzumaki Naruto, is given full power to do what is necessary to improve the readiness of Konoha's Barrier Team, and any instructions from him will be followed to the letter, with this ANBU, codenamed Tenzou, be the watcher to determine whether or not his commands are followed and whether they are beneficial or not to Konoha, in which if the case is not so, he can cancel out this scroll at any time. Signed, Sandaime Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen." He then passes the scroll to one of the intercept team's member, before he confirmed that the Hokage seal on the scroll is authentic.

"It may be a standby moment, but what happens when an enemy suddenly approaches Konoha? Will you be able to intercept them fast enough if you're just relaxing here? Will you be able to stop an attack before it starts with you all lazing around like this? I thought that the Barrier Team was meant to be an early warning system for any attacks towards Konoha. Yet you are all just sitting there, playing cards?"

Naruto then proceeds to jump towards the water sphere, before looking around the seals within the room to determine their functionality. "Well, at least the seals are still functioning well. They can also function for a while longer. I think the only thing that I can do now is create a secondary function to the barrier so that they can also act as a solid barrier when the condition necessitates it. My clones may have reinforced the strength of the wall, but I can improve the barrier's detection, and also the range of it."

And with that, Naruto creates massive numbers of clones who went to their job of painting the seals around the room and the sphere of water so that they can detect even further and with a better warning system, combined with the possibility to become a tough chakra wall to either prevent enemies from entering or leaving the area, and can even isolate chakra to prevent any detection. He then dispels a clone to inform the clones above ground on what to do with the barriers.

A couple of hours passed with Naruto doing his sealing tasks and the rest of the barrier team and Tenzou watching him crafting complicated seals with amazing speed and complexity like they are nothing at all. After a while, the new barriers are complete, together with the new function of the barrier. After spending the next hour explaining the new functions of the barrier towards the members of the barrier team while also berating their lack of readiness, he left to his house to take the mission report from Kurumi if it is complete, and saw that it is already night time. "Damn time flies fast," he mused, before Hiraishining towards his compound. Once there, Kurumi told him what happened, before he immediately went to the Hokage's office to meet with Kurumi and to give the reports towards the Hokage.

After the report, the Hokage summarises it. "So, Kurumi didn't remove the seal, but turns it into some other kind of seal, and you improved on the design of the seals used for the barrier and added an extra function. Is that right both of you?"

"Yup." Both of them answered.

"Well, you both have done the missions well. I am hoping that you can be contacted later for any 'errands', Naruto."

"Of course old man! We won't disappoint you in anything!" Naruto said before grabbing Kurumi and disappearing in a yellow flash.

Sarutobi just chuckles, before saying "Those two are going to be the death of me."

-BREAK-

About one and a half years has passed after those last errands, and there are some major changes that occurred towards the Uzumaki-Namikazes. First was Kushina. She has reached her growth spurt, reaching about 5'8" now, and is a real beauty, with her shoulder length golden blonde hair, oval face, blue eyes and whisker marks, which when combined with her B-cup breasts, toned legs, firm ass and her nice figure due to her constant training with her father causes her to become the attraction in the academy, in that a lot of the boys are crazy for her due to her looks, and some of the villagers even looked at her lecherously, but not daring to bother her due to her father. She also became the strongest kunoichi in the academy, with great marks in all categories and in spars, no one can even think of matching her. Somehow, the only kunoichi capable of matching her was her stepmother, her Hina-mama, who she still calls as such. Kiba was eyeing her for a while, before she beat the crap out of him in another spar, and telling him "You better stop looking at me like that mutt boy, or you'll be meeting my dad after this, and I never won against my dad. Against my family, you are no alpha male, so please keep your doggy mouth shut. I respected you as a comrade, but bother me again, and you'll see why the people feared my dad." Needless to say, Kiba decided to cut his losses and stopped bothering her, lest he were to meet her father, widely known as the strongest shinobi in the academy.

Another change is towards Hinata. With the constant presence of Anko who was retraining her skills together with the Uzumaki-Namikazes and a near daily sparring session with her, she improved by leaps and bounds, so much so, that even Anko, with her Snake Style taijutsu was hard pressed to match with her due to her sheer speed and flexibility. The only reason why Anko still won most of their spars is because she had more experience than her, and because she uses her new seal mark. She has also mastered all the Hyuuga's secret clan arts, knowing the Eight trigrams 128 Palms, the Rotation and the Air Palms, and combined with her flexibility and continuously trained speed and confidence, she became a feared person in the academy. Even the Hyuugas are no longer bothering her, now that she was stronger and was always escorted by either Naruto or Kushina, both more than capable of handling anything that came their way. In the academy, she gained the second best position, with Kushina winning, but by only marginally. Though the fake Caged Bird seal was still on her forehead, which she proudly displays.

Kurumi was now good friends with Anko, and they both usually sparred together, with Kurumi being the only person who can fight toe-to-toe with her on a daily basis. She discovers her addiction to dango, and decided to learn how to cook dango, but that was for another time. They both also discovered that the purified youki that she placed within her seal has recovered in just a couple of months, causing Kurumi to think of the possibility of making more of the seal and keeping the notes, but decided not to do anything of it yet. They also discovered that the seal can improve her healing rate when activated, calms her down, and increases her combat abilities among other bonuses. Kurumi's constant sparring with Anko also helped improve Anko's skill to be even better than before.

Also, another person that Naruto has helped appeared in the academy, looking much better than she was before. Kurama Yakumo, once too sickly and weak to go to the academy, has started attending the academy about a year ago. Though she is still physically weak, she never falters, intending to repay Naruto's effort in helping her to its maximum. She never stopped studying both her clan arts and what the academy teaches, and kept going through all the taught materials like never before. Though she still lost to most people during spars, she compensates it with a great theoretical mind and a great imagination, both are a necessity of genjutsu users.

Naruto has spread his special bug clone network far and wide, getting near real time reports of all the happenings within the village remotely through his bug clones. What's more impressive is that they are as of yet undetectable, with nothing differentiating them with a speck of dust, a small rock, or just bugs. From what he knows, the council kept trying to have him banished, which the Sandaime prevented, the elders are Danzo supporters, Danzo still kept his ROOT program on and had a couple of very prominent clan's members in his command. He also tried to get Kushina once for his own purposes, thinking that the daughter of a jinchuuriki (which he no longer was) can have special powers (which he undoubtedly is correct about, though in a roundabout way). Also, the Uchiha are planning a coup, which he knew thanks to a clone disguised as a tiny stone within Itachi's pocket, whom he knew was the Sandaime's spy. This last fact really bothered him to no end, and he was going to put it in his hands and prevent this stupid massacre.

-BREAK-

At night time, Konoha was a sleeping city, its inhabitants had already closed their shops for the day, leaving only the ninjas and the wild animals roaming the streets to appear. Within the inky blackness of the night, Naruto, wearing an all black ensemble with his trusted cloak with him, ready to find the target of his self appointed mission to stop Uchiha Itachi from committing the massacre that Danzo had suggested to him earlier, which he knew from a clone of him in Itachi's pocket. Knowing of Danzo's true plans, Naruto has managed to convince the Sandaime to let him handle this matter.

-FLASHBACK-

The Sandaime was busy doing his favourite pastime, which was reading Icha Icha while having his Shadow Clones do all his work when Naruto suddenly barged through the doors of his office and started creating multiple seals on air around him, which causes the area to be engulfed by a blue glow. Hiruzen then stood up, before he slowly spoke, his voice brimming with anger. "Naruto, I usually let you get away with so much. So now, please tell me why you are making a sealed barrier within my office without my permission."

"Jiji, I know of the Uchihas and their coup." The Sandaime was about to reply that it isn't his matter to be concerned of, before Naruto continued. "And I know what was going to happen, who's idea was it, and how does it go." At this, the Sandaime gaped, and Naruto continued his explanations.

"Jiji, the Uchihas are going to perform a coup, sure, but Itachi killing all of them are not a good idea. I know that you didn't order him to kill off all the clan members, but Danzo, that snivelling bastard, went behind your orders and managed to convince Itachi that only by killing off all his clan members will he be able to save the village, when he actually only wants to gain the Uchiha's Sharingans to be used as a secret technique for himself with Orochimaru's help."

"So... Danzo is trying to gain more power using dirty tricks... he was a major thorn in my side, and always was. His warmongering will bring Konoha to disaster instead of towards peace, and his act will damage Konoha. Though I am surprised on how you know all this. Care to explain it, boy?"

Sighing, Naruto then explains the self made spy network that he built within the village using clones with purified youki as cores, allowing them to function far, far longer than regular Shadow Clones, and even allowing him to gain a lot of information over nearly everything that has been happening within the village. And once again, Hiruzen was gobsmacked that this child, has a much more comprehensive, instantaneous, and most importantly, undetectable spy network than his does. All his information and the potential for a major takedown of a thorn in his side can all be gained by cooperating with this kid in front of him.

"*sighs* Naruto, that... was a bit too much. But still, before I say anything, I would like you to explain your plans to me first before you start performing them."

"Alright. The first part of my plan is to prevent Danzo from meeting Shisui so that Danzo will be unable to get Shisui's eye that has the capability to perform the Koto Amatsukami, a genjutsu that can completely control someone, and compels them to follow their bidding. Kurumi was controlled to attack Konoha using this jutsu. After that, I can unhenge my clones in the middle of the night and have them kill each perpetrator of the coup and only the perpetrators, and preventing any other unnecessary casualties to this disaster. After that, if Danzo would still like to continue with his plans to get the eyes from the dead Uchihas, my clones will prevent any of them from getting close to them, while at the same time have you and your ANBU attack Danzo's underground ROOT HQ, and disable his team immediately."

"You sound angry at him. Why?"

At this question, Naruto's KI spiked, before he calmed himself. "He tried to kidnap Kushi-chan a couple of times, and even tried just getting her blood samples to either clone her or use Orochimaru's technique to implant the bloodline into someone. Unfortunately, he didn't count on the blood being poisonous to everyone except us, and the experiment promptly failed. Miserably too. He also failed to get any of mine, Kushi-chan or Kurumi-chan's blood samples, which gave me some relief."

Hearing this, Sarutobi just sighed. He knew how overprotective Naruto is towards his family, and will go to the ends of the world to protect them, no matter how strong they are. Even shy Hinata's growth with him has been nothing short of phenomenal, and now, she can give Anko without her Blessed Mark's (that's what she calls it) power a run for her money if pure taijutsu is the only thing involved.

"Alright Naruto. It sure seems that this will be the only way that will lead to the least deaths. Though Danzo's ROOT is a different matter entirely."

"From what my clones can see, the compound is a huge underground compound, and he has around 200-300 members that was either active or inactive at one time, all extremely loyal towards him."

"Are there any other way for us to take him down without causing his ROOTs to retaliate towards Konoha? Other than wiping them all, of course."

"Well, I'm not sure of that. Maybe we can reintegrate them within the academy, and regain their emotions and their own thoughts instead of just following blindly someone's orders. Yeah. Now that I think of it, that would be the best course of action, by reintegrating them within the academy. Might also get some better ninjas at it, and can improve the general quality of our ninjas. Though they still need to recover their emotions again. His training causes them to lose their emotions and most of their sense of rationality, and this can be more devastating than anything. So, what do you think of my plan?"

"I think it's fine, but we'll be having a long chat after this about what can and can't be done. I would also want any other 'side activities' that you did be mentioned to me. Understand?"

"Okay, old man. But that is for a later date. Now, we need to handle Danzo, his goons, and the Uchiha. You'll handle the first, I'll handle the second. I'll start with Itachi first, then I'll let you handle Danzo. When I'm done, just throw the kunai and I'll come. Is that okay with you, old man?"

"I guess that's a fine idea. Well, it's time these old bones work in battle again." And with that, he stood from his chair. Meanwhile, Naruto called him on his bullshit, considering that he's the one who reversed him on his aging. "Can it old man. We all know you're just bullshitting. Anyway, I'll turn off this barrier, and will go to my position to stop him." And with that, Naruto disappears.

-FLASHBACK ENDS-

Internally sighing, Naruto prepares himself to ambush both of them and stop them from starting the plans that will ruin Konoha as a whole, and shadowed the figure of Danzo, who was heading towards Shisui's location to take his eyes, all his ROOT guards already knocked out and replaced with Shadow Clones. "Damn, this guy is fucking paranoid! I knocked out like 50 guards just now! Maybe he brought them together to take Shisui down. He needs to, since Shisui himself isn't a bad ninja. But I'll have a clone stop him before having a 'chat' with Itachi and Shisui. This didn't need to happen, yet it really did. Well, the only thing to do now is to ride this wave until its end, I guess." And with that, Naruto created a youki clone, before leaving himself to where Shisui and Itachi was going to meet.

-WITH THE CLONE-

The clone then dropped suddenly in front of the figure of Danzo, who was surprised that his guards didn't stop this person. With his black cloak and black dress up, he couldn't identify the person behind the mask, and this causes him to think that this person is someone that wants to kill him, an assassin. "Who are you?" Danzo asked, his hands ready to fly into hand seals in a moment's notice. But before Danzo can do anything, the figure dashed up to his location immediately with incredible speed. But with experience born of years of warfare, he managed to dodge the man's outstretched palm, only to fell into another attack that he cannot react against before placing a seal, made by chakra, on his body, before weird bluish markings spread from the point where the seal was placed to his whole body. Danzo's single eye was wide upon feeling that both his movement and chakra was sealed. He cannot move an inch! The cloaked person then came and grabbed him, lifted him on his shoulders before jumping out into the night, his mission completed.

-WITH REAL NARUTO-

The real Naruto was watching the clearing where Shisui and Itachi was about to meet to plan their own counter to the Uchiha's plans, and was watching the figure of Itachi who was standing in the middle of the clearing. Then suddenly, Shisui appeared in a shunshin right in front of Itachi, who didn't even looked at his location, before Shisui started to talk about their plans to disrupt the coup of the Uchiha clan. But before they can say anything, Naruto's all black figure appeared in front of them, causing both Shisui and Itachi to jump backwards and settled themselves in a defensive stance.

"Itachi, Shisui, relax. I am here to help both of you with your plans, under the Sandaime's orders."

"How can we trust you?" said Itachi with his usual stoicism, though his body is tensed to strike at this unknown intruder at a moment's notice.

"Here's a scroll from the Sandaime himself saying that I am to help you, and even use my own idea to handle the Uchiha's coup. In fact, you both didn't need to act. I will handle everything. Your plan of using the Koto Amatsukami is not really a good plan, since there might be those in the future that will still think the same way. It's better off if we were to use my plans, and you can use Koto Amatsukami at a later time where it is more important." Naruto then tossed a scroll with orders from the Sandaime to the two, who was surprised, though Itachi didn't show it. Shisui then caught the scroll and read it, and after a while, he closes the scroll with a snap.

"Well, I guess that what you said was true, and now that Danzo's plans have been thwarted, we can continue with our original planning." Shisui said.

"No. I have a better plan." And with that, Naruto explained his plan to both Shisui and Itachi. All the while, Itachi was thinking of this mysterious figure in front of him. "He appeared out of nowhere without even alerting us of his presence! He is definitely someone powerful, but he claims to work for the Sandaime. And if what Shisui read was true, he definitely is with us. But what is his real motive? Who are you? An unknown like him is dangerous, especially when he knew of our plans and good enough to avoid my detection."

Shisui and Naruto's talk was interrupted by the slow voice of Itachi asking Naruto a question. "And what, pray tell, is your benefit in all this? I find it hard to believe that you would do this just for Konoha."

"Believe it or not, Uchiha-san, I have no other reason to do this but for the sake of peace within Konoha. I know you are a pacifist who doesn't kill unless absolutely necessary, and with my plan, not just that the culprit for the coup can be annihilated; you can also clear your hand of the blood, and claim innocence. In fact, I would love to help you with your plans, if not for the fact that your plans are full of holes. With my plan, you can even start re-educating all the children within the clan against their currently budding mindset of Uchiha Superiority, a certain fact, which I know that you know is a whole load of crap. So how is it? Would you like to follow my plans? Or would you like to stain your hands with the blood of your own clansmen?"

This causes Itachi to think. With his plans, he can prevent unnecessary death, and if he followed through with Danzo's plans, it'll cause a lot more than just mass panic. He can even prevent a critical weakening of Konoha, and can still stay to protect her from future enemies. The more he thinks, the more that this person's plans are the better choice against the plague of pride infecting the Uchiha clan. His mind made, he speaks. "Alright. I suppose that your plan is a much better plan than ours are. But before your plans can begin, may I ask who are you, a person so trusted by the Sandaime that he allows you, someone unknown to his ninja force to be involved in his village's problems?"

"Well, if you would like to know me, then just know that my name is more known as Arashi. That is all that you will get out of me."

Hearing his name, Shisui almost jumped in shock. "Arashi? As in Arashi the Blood Drinker, said to be the most brutal mercenary out there, not leaving any enemies alive?"

Even Itachi's eyes widened a bit. Arashi's brutality towards his enemies are legendary, and his nickname came from the fact that survivors usually claims that he drinks his enemies' blood and eats their flesh and brains, leaving the survivors heavily traumatized, especially when the flesh and brain eating part occurs right in front of the survivor. Even someone as stoic as Itachi would shake inside his combat boots when someone eats his allies' brains in front of him. But knowing better than to trust rumours, Itachi decides to ask him of it. "Arashi-san, it is said that you usually ate your enemies' flesh and brains. Is this true or is this just an exaggeration?"

Hearing Naruto's loud sigh in response to the question, Itachi and Shisui let out a breath of relief, thinking that the rumours are fake. Siuddenly, they heard Naruto say, "Damn those survivors. I shouldn't let any live. They've spread out false rumours about me!" he then turned towards the two. "Actually, I ate the brains only. They contain knowledge you know. Unless if I'm too hungry, only then will I eat their flesh. I usually ignored their body. No reason to care about them, you know."

At this, Itachi and Shisui paled. This guy's a cannibal! "S-s-so d-does that mean that y-you will e-e-e-eat the b-b-b-brains of the Uchiha culprits!? That's defiling the body!"

"I will not do so. Too messy in front of their families. Maybe if I were to drag each and every body somewhere and cut their heads off, then I will. But I don't think so. It defiles their bodies, as you said. No matter if they tried to betray Konoha or not, they're still Konoha ninjas. I won't do something like that to allies, only to enemies." Naruto's voice then turned serious. "So, are we doing this or not?"

Hearing the change of tone, Itachi and Shisui straightened up, and prepared themselves to follow through with the act of eliminating the traitors within their clan. For Konoha.

-BREAK-

Within the walls of the Uchiha Clan compound, the guards that are patrolling didn't realise even for a second that they are being watched by multitudes of creatures and inanimate objects, remembering their patrol routes. After Naruto's constant spying over the Uchiha clan, he found out something terrifying: about 70% of the clan of about two hundred plans to betray Konoha, and most of them are the ones who are combat experts. They are strong, sure, but attacking Konoha itself will be the biggest mistake they will ever do, both towards their clan and Konoha itself.

Being watched by Itachi and Shisui on the walls of the compound, they watched as random pebbles and insects turned into human beings, fully armed with kunais in their hands though not looking like Naruto to prevent the survivors from identifying the would-be slaughterer of the Uchiha Clan.

They watched as the clones grabbed the patrols with inhuman strength that no one could escape from. They stood at their position as the clones sank their kunais into the patrol members' hearts. They shed a tear when the dead patrol members are unceremoniously thrown aside into hidden spots. They felt themselves die a little inside as they watched the clones systematically kill each and every perpetrator of the coup that they encounter outside the clan houses.

The clones outside are moving forwards silently to clear out any hidden members or spies within the area. Meanwhile, on an unseen signal, multitudes of clones, all henged into bugs or pebbles unhenged themselves right beside their targets before snapping their necks, causing clean kills without any sign. Some even died right beside their spouses. The reason they didn't woke up is due to the fact that the Naruto clones concealed himself extremely well, so much so that they felt nothing, not even when they died. A combination of silencing seals and the Linker Core's innate chakra suppression ability and his own Battle Mode kicking in prevents his target from detecting him until they died. After their targets are dead, they immediately henged themselves back into the pebbles and bugs, intend on going elsewhere to check the condition of the rest of them.

Itachi and Shisui had dropped from their position and is walking through the compound, watching as the clones stealthily and systematically kill off most of the Uchiha Clan. The sights that they saw almost made them regret following the plan, and Shisui decides to voice this. "Itachi, do you think what we are letting Arashi do is the best choice? I mean, killing everyone will weaken the village's military greatly, and will probably cause us to be targeted by the other villages. Is this the right choice?"

Itachi slowly closes his eyes before opening them, his Sharingan activated and spinning to memorize the faces of the dead, his cousins, his friends, his training partners, he wants to remember them all, and said to himself that all this is for the good of the village. After a while, he answered Shisui. "I don't know. I really don't, Shisui. But what I know is that Arashi is right. If they are left even with your Koto Amatsukami, they'll still have the kids be taught about Uchiha Superiority, thus letting the selfish ideal be passed down, and potentially giving birth to another generation of arrogant Uchihas. We cannot live forever Shisui, and the genjutsu can be broken with enough time and effort if someone realises it. Or even simpler, you will not be able to use it again for 10 years after that, causing a huge gap in time by which many other problems will arise. This may weaken Konoha initially, but it is for the better. Do not for one second think that I do not regret the sight of our clansmen dying. That is why I activated my Sharingan to remember them. So that whenever I sleep, when I'm awake, during whatever I'll do, I'll always remember the sacrifice that we, the remaining Uchihas, had to do in order to maintain peace. I hope that the people won't learn of this, yet our remaining clan member will understand this action."

Shisui just nodded before activating his Sharingan and doing the same as Itachi. "Well said brother. Well said. I have to say that this might probably be the best idea that can be performed in this situation." He then turned towards Itachi. "Itachi, when the remaining Uchihas want to vote for a clan leader, you'll gain mine. And I'm sure everyone else will do the same. You are the best fighter and leader in the Uchiha's current history, and we'll be damned if we are to choose anyone else as our leader."

At this, Itachi said nothing, though in his heart, he's extremely proud of the confidence that his clansmen showed on his skills and leadership capabilities. He promised within his heart that on the dead body of the Uchihas and on their immortal souls, he'll do his best to lead the clan, remove the arrogance of the Uchihas and end the cycle of hatred that plagues the Uchihas until now. And make sure that they are loyal to Konoha instead of their clan. He then walked forwards, Shisui following right beside him.

-BREAK-

Meanwhile, the real Naruto is heading straight towards where his clones are holding Danzo who was sitting on a small chair while being asleep and bound by layers of chakra chains, with the Sandaime already there to judge him. As soon as he reached the place, which is actually a training ground walled with barrier seals that the clones created beforehand, the Sandaime turned to face him before saying. "Ah Naruto, so good for you to be here."

"Likewise old man."

"Now, can you wake my friend here up so that I can judge him?"

Naruto then proceeds to remove the immobilizer and stasis seals that he placed on Danzo when he captured him and watched as he groggily woke up. Upon reaching full consciousness, he is immediately greeted with the sight of his friend and teammate, the Sandaime, Sarutobi Hiruzen and the jinchuuriki of Konoha, Uzumaki Naruto.

"Hiruzen! What is the meaning of this!? Why am I bound?! Release me this instant!"

Ignoring him, the Sandaime started to speak in an authoritarian note. "Shimura Danzo, you are brought here in front of me to be judged on your transgressions against Konoha."

Danzo, upon hearing this, said "Transgressions? Hiruzen, what are you talking about?! I have done no such thing!"

The Sandaime once again ignored him and kept walking slowly around the chair that held the chained Danzo while saying, "You are guilty of not following the reigning Hokage's orders. He ordered you to disband your ROOT division, yet you did not. You also went behind his back and ordered the complete destruction of one of Konoha's founding clans to gain their powers for your own. You also conspired with a traitor of Konoha by the name of Orochimaru to run experiments on orphans and on yourself, defiling the grave of a previous Hokage to gain his powers for your own use. How do you plead?"

"Hiruzen, you must've gone senile in your old age. I did not-" anything he is about to say was cut short when one end of the chain broke through the cask he places on his left arm, revealing the grotesque face of Senju Hashirama on his shoulder and his discoloured arm due to the implantation of the artificial arm on his body.

"Once again, I ask: how do you plead?" Hiruzen said, his voice no longer merciful. This voice sends shivers down Naruto's spine. "The old man still has spunk in his old age. Damn. Definitely not someone who you should mess with."

Seeing that his biggest secret was exposed, Danzo just sighed. "It seems that I am discovered. Tell me Hiruzen, how did you found out what I was doing?"

"Should I tell a traitor my secrets? I doubt that. Since you have no pleas to push forward, any last words?"

"Hiruzen, know that everything that I do is for the sake of Konoha. All my actions are to put Konoha on top of everyone and to rule over all the Hidden Villages! I am-" his words was cut short by Naruto who is cutting his skull open using his wind chakra enhanced claws to reach his brain, a brain that can allow him the chance to control ROOT by being able to imitate Danzo completely, down to the last detail. At this admittedly gruesome sight, Sarutobi turned around before saying. "You know Naruto, hearing reports about you eating someone's brain and watching it is two extremely different matter."

Naruto who is still cutting Danzo's head open, the seals on Danzo's body had been disabled for a while, replied: "Yeah, of course. It is extremely brutal you know, watching someone eat another person's brains. But it is extremely useful as well. I gained all their knowledge, skills and memories, allowing me to imitate someone completely, though it sometimes can cause me to get so angry due to the atrocities that some people made. These are usually the ones that I despised. I have the memories of tens of rapists, murderers and killers in my mind among others. Though I hate their brains, sometimes the fastest way to gain information is by eating them. I cannot do anything about that. We use everything that we have no matter what."

The Sandaime just nodded, ignoring the squelching sounds created when Naruto picked Danzo's brain up and chewed them. No matter if he executed him, Danzo is still one of his best companion, friend and rival before the truth about what he did was found. It pains him to do something like that, but he understood that the village is more important than anything, even his life. A while later, Naruto is walking towards the Sandaime having completed his 'information extraction'. Hearing this, he turned around and is about to ask him of what he learned when he saw that his face is holding back a massive amount of anger, his fists clenched so tightly that it can probably crush someone's head while his KI is leaking like it's going out of style.

Watching this, Hiruzen is about to console him when Naruto said, "Stop, old man. Just stop. If this guy is someone that you considered your rival and friend, I'm afraid of what your enemies can do." Hiruzen is about to order Naruto to tell him about what he found out within Danzo's memories when Naruto turned around, saying "No. I will not tell you. Nor will I share it with you. His knowledge... It's just plain insane. He... he... Just no, old man. I'll keep this hidden. You really don't need to know."

Hearing the extremely sad tone that Naruto used, the Sandaime decides that he'll drop the matter, or maybe push it on a later date. Now it is time for the second stage of the plan: to imitate Danzo and to order ROOT to intergrate themselves into Konoha and stop their current activities on bringing 'peace' to Konoha through massive firepower, an objective that is, as good as it is, will not bring forth lasting peace, only an illusion of one, covered by hundreds upon hundreds of death behind the facade of peace.

-BREAK-

Within the ROOT HQ, 'Danzo' is walking towards his office while being flanked by two of 'his' ROOT member, both wearing the customary black cloak with a red line and the plain white porcelain mask of ROOT. As he reached 'his' office, he sat upon the wooden throne that Danzo usually sat on his arm back in its casing, before calling all available ROOT members to gather in front of him. All of them then gathered in front of him, kneeling and ready to receive any orders from their master.

'Danzo then stood, before saying. "ROOT! We have been discovered by the Hokage! Even now, my spies are giving news to me that he is preparing a huge force of ANBUs to strike this facility and take us down. I will face him in combat to delay him, but ultimately I will no doubt lose, his skills as the God of Shinobi is not just a name. No matter how much I wanted to take the title of Hokage from him, it is not possible with my plans in jeopardy. And so, this is my final order for all ROOT members. You are to integrate yourself with the regular ninja force of Konoha according to each of your own specialty! The time for us to hide in shadows is over, together with my life as I face the Sandaime! During that face off, all of you are to run away, and enter the regular ninja force or ANBU depending on your skills! Remember that ROOT exists to protect Konoha from the dark! And with my death, all of you, successors of my will and teaching, will do the same but in the light instead of from the darkness! Such is my final order, and I expect all of you to spread it to every member! I will face the Hokage, and you will run away to enter the regular forces. Goodbye, all of you. You are my soldiers, trained personally by me to thrive in the darkness. But that time is over, and we shall protect Konoha in the light! Now go! Go and bring Konoha to glory under the Hokage!"

All the ROOT members roared a battle cry before they all left, no doubt to execute 'his' final command while he walked towards the exit of the ROOT base. Inwardly, Naruto is smirking. His plans worked like a charm! The ROOT members didn't even question his orders! "It seems your training in having them obey you 100% without even questioning you has turned back against you, didn't even bother to validate my identity, though it will still fail since I am completely Danzo right now. Well, time to get beaten up by the old man and make this ruse work."

He then appeared at the exit of the ROOT compound, located within a dense woodland area beside the Hokage Monument, the Hokage already waiting with his ANBU forces around them, ready to finish him.

"Danzo! I have found you guilty of having disobeyed my orders and performing acts that endanger Konoha as a whole! Tonight, it all ends! A friend you may be, my rival you are, but I will not let you endanger Konoha anymore! Prepare yourself!"

Naruto, going back into his 'Danzo' persona, calmly speaks "So you decided to become my judge, jury and executioner, Hiruzen? I realise that I will not be able to defeat you. Not now, not even. As you said, the time for talk is over. Just know that whatever I do, it's all for the sake of Konoha, to make us stronger." And with that, 'Danzo' started waving handseals to perform one of his favourite jutsu, the Futon: Vacuum Sphere.

-BREAK-

The battle was short yet extremely devastating, craters made by Katon jutsus are everywhere, the trees broken and destroyed due to stray Futon jutsus, spikes of earth stood everywhere due to defensive and offensive Doton jutsus, but ultimately, as 'Danzo' said earlier, he lost, his body lying on the ground, scorched beyond recognition. Hoping for the safety of his surrogate grandson, he waved his fingers in a jutsu to completely incinerate 'Danzo''s body so that no one will be able to recognize it. Upon the completion, he turned around to leave, only to be met with the gobsmacked faces of the ANBU squad that surround the clearing. All of them had the same thing in their minds: "Shit! No wonder he is called 'The God of Shinobi'! He crushed Danzo in minutes! That is also why he's the Hokage, he's the strongest guy, the head honcho!"

Watching this, Hiruzen smiled before saying, "Are you young ones surprised? I am the Hokage for a good reason you know. I did not just become Hokage due to my age and experience. Now, clear this up."

The ANBUs, still shocked at their first experience of watching the Venerable Third in battle just nodded before disappearing to clear up the place. A while later, a huge boom is heard, and the ground where the entrance appeared suddenly fell down into a huge hole, the ROOT compound supporting it destroyed by the remaining ROOT members. All the while, the Sandaime is thinking about the safety of Naruto. Even if he knew that Naruto cannot be beaten that easily, nor can he be hurt as easily or the fact that he can recover from injuries that would kill most people in a day or two, he can't help but feel bad about attacking his surrogate grandson.

Suddenly, the gigantic figure of Naruto appeared in front of him from a shunshin from close range. He then saluted the Sandaime before giving his report. "'Errand' completed, old man. The Uchiha that agrees with the coup are dead, Danzo's ROOT is completely destroyed and so is his body. I substituted with his body right before that last Katon: Fire Dragon Flame Bomb hits. Those ANBUs sure looked shocked at your battle capabilities don't they?"

Hiruzen chuckled. "Yes, they did. I guess only you had ever sparred with me nowadays, so I can't fault them if they thought that I am still a decrepit old man with a cool hat on his head."

"Guess you can still joke around eh old man? Whatever. The situation is solved, though the death of so many Uchihas will weaken us a little. Well, I'll have no problems with me having to do the rounds or whatever you wanted me to do. Besides, with the influx of ROOT members that you'll gain afterwards, Konoha's military strength will remain. Though those guys will need to learn about emotions and comradery before entering the proper forces. There are a lot of those guys, and it's not going to be easy having them relearn their emotions."

"Well, good work Naruto. I'll send you the payment later. Thank you for solving the village's major problems in one swoop."

"No worries old man. And also, Itachi will make a good teacher and clan head. Just telling you." And with that, Naruto left the Sandaime, intending on going back home, Danzo's memories in his head are kept as secret even from his family. Maybe one day he'll tell them of it, but it's definitely not now.

-BREAK-

The next morning, the entire village is shocked by the news of the death of most of the Uchiha Clan, most probably due to assassins in the night. Coming in systematically, they killed the guards before going into the clan compound and killing their targets, so stealthy they are that no one woke up from these attacks. The Hokage promises that the culprit will be caught, and deployed most of his ANBU forces to track the assassins. Also, the death of the elder Shimura Danzo at the same night causes all the village members who supported the man to give out words of condolences. The man, not known to have any heirs is a great businessman and politician, and even the Sandaime respects him. The potential culprits are the one who also attacked the Uchiha compound. This day is later known among the villages as the 'Day of Massacre', where a lot of the prominent members of the village were killed by unknown assailants, causing cries of outrage and the need to increase security patrols in Konoha by the council to be heard.

Or so the public is told.

Behind the council doors lined with secrecy seals that Naruto created where only the shinobi council meets, the members are told of the true story about the Uchiha's coup attempts and Danzo's ROOT and their subsequent annihilation, thus the emptying of the Uchiha's seat on the council due to Uchiha Fugaku's death while they are electing a new leader. The clans wholly supported this move, saying that not doing so will be an even worse action, and will weaken Konoha severely.

Meanwhile, in the Uchiha compound, mothers and children are hugging each other, tears flowing from their eyes with loud cries of sadness coming out from their mouths as they watched the dead body of their brothers, their siblings, their parents, their husband and their wife being burned to ashes in a huge bonfire to prevent any enemies from defiling their graves and stealing their eyes or taking their body to discover their secrets. There are also the voices of those who wanted, no, demanded blood be spilt to avenge their killer. But suddenly, the voice of Itachi broke through their reverie amidst the sound of burning woods and human bodies.

"Everyone of the Uchiha Clan." Everyone then turned to the source of this voice who is standing in front of everyone in his ANBU Commander uniform. "I would like to ask all of you. Do you see the similarities among the dead?"

The gathered people pondered for a while about this before the soft voice of Uchiha Mikoto, the clan matriarch is heard. "They all wanted to perform the coup against Konoha and is ready to delay negotiations to prepare the attack. Is that right?"

Itachi nodded towards his mother. "Correct."

Then, the voice of another member is heard from the back. "So does that mean Konoha is guilty of killing them?! Our clansmen?! Our siblings!? My son..." before she broke down and cried on the shoulder of the Uchiha beside her, most of them feeling anger towards Konoha right now, Sharingan activated and ready to call for justice in the form of the Hokage's blood.

"Before you all do anything rash, try thinking of this. If the coup were to succeed, what will happen? There is no way that the Uchihas alone can win against all the forces that Konoha has. Even if we do win, a lot of our clan members will die still, and the remaining survivors will have to rule over a severely weakened Konoha and Uchiha clan, which will cause the other villages to come and attack us due to our weakness. Despite our clan's teachings, the Sharingan is not infallible. We will not be able to withstand such an onslaught of attacks, and we WILL lose. If we are to lose, the remaining members of our clan will be branded as traitors, causing our reputation to drop and proving to the people of Konoha that we are the power hungry people that they thought we are. Then, the further weakening of the forces due to the coup will cause other village to attack us, causing us to lose. Once again, due to the actions of our clan, Konoha ultimately loses. By doing this, we can hide the fact that we attempted a coup, thus preventing our reputation from taking a hit." Itachi said to persuade them from the path of vengeance.

"But what right do they have to kill our members?! We have been loyal to Konoha all this time!" someone else shouted.

"And that is why all of you, all of us are spared. All the dead are perpetrators of the coup, and no one else."

"How did the Sandaime know of it!? He must've had a spy within our clan!"

"He did. I am." Itachi said, much to the shock of everyone. "I am his spy, and I am the one who reported everything to him. This is the reason why the plan is known by him. But he chose the right road. Did you know that Danzo and the elders told me to kill the entire clan, not just the perpetrators?" at this, the people are shocked. How can someone let even the innocent and not guilty die for the wrongs of his other clanmates?! "He told me to kill everyone, and to be honest, I almost went through with it, until the Sandaime himself came to me and told me that I didn't have to do it. He called for someone to perform the deed, though I watched him along the way, making sure that he only kills those who are deemed guilty."

"That means you have a hand in killing them all!" a man shouted.

"True. I will not deny that. Hate me if you must, but know that this move is necessary. Even you know about it. Sad as it is, it is the best way to prevent our future generation from being treated as scum and/or the reason why the village is destroyed. The village that our ancestors together with the Senju clan created. Do all of you wanted our homes to be destroyed due to our own foolishness?" everyone shook their heads, some still had tears flowing from their eyes. "Then know that this is the best method there is. We will rebuild the clan as a whole, teach our future children a more humble way of life, ending the curse of hatred and the megalomaniacal ways of the Uchihas of old to prevent something like this from happening again. Will everyone follow me as we lead the Uchihas through a new age? An age where we are not known by our arrogance but for our combat prowess and our humility?"

Slowly and reluctantly the remaining members of the Uchiha clan nodded, understanding the sheer impact of the massacre and the effects that it had on them. Most of them swore within their heads that they'll prevent something like this from occurring again, their eyes shining with determination and regret. Watching this, Itachi smiled, knowing that he's one step closer to the mentality shift of the entire Uchiha clan. He then looked at the bonfire, a tear flowing from his Sharingan eye, before he whispered, "Father...", though the raging funeral flames did not reply.

Another even that occurred at the same time is that the Sandaime's office is suddenly filled with ex-ROOT members swearing fealty towards the Hokage, and will do anything as he commanded while kneeling in front of him. Massaging his head due to the impending headache, he said. "ROOT, you are once the followers of Danzo. How can I be sure that you will not betray me and stab me in the back when the time is right?"

The leader spoke. "Hokage-sama, the last orders from Danzo to us is that we are to go back up to the light and work under you, for you to command us as you wished. We also know that you killed him, thanks to the disappearance of the seals on our tongue. Following both his last orders and the fact that we are now without a leader, we opted to follow through with his orders and to ask for advice and/or command from you. Is that fine, Hokage-sama?"

Hiruzen then leaned forward and crossed his fingers before placing it at the bridge of his nose. "So you are swearing fealty towards me because, simply put, it's your last order and that you have no leaders right now, correct?" the ROOT-nin nodded. "Then, my first order to all you ex-ROOT is to forget about Danzo, and serve me as you served him, following my orders without fail. Is that clear?"

"YES HOKAGE-SAMA!" the ex-ROOT nin in the room shouts in unison.

"Good. We are now weakened due to the death of the Uchiha Clan. My next order to you is this: all ex-ROOT nin are to gather in front of the Uchiha compound and will be the new replacement members of the Uchiha Police Force, and tell Uchiha Itachi that he is to be the new leader of the Uchiha Police Force. All of you will also learn to rediscover your emotions. Danzo may have taught you that emotions are not needed in a ninja, only loyalty, but I will not have drones in my command. I want people, humans who can think for themselves and to act on what their heart guides them to when the situation requires it. All ex-ROOT members will also participate in a weekly therapy session with Yamanaka Inoichi to rehabilitate all of you back into society. Are my orders heard?"

"YES HOKAGE-SAMA!"

"Now go!" Hiruzen said while waving his hand to have the ex-ROOT members leave to perform their missions, causing them to disappear to go towards the Uchiha compound. Hiruzen then prepares himself for the onslaught of paperwork that he knows will arrive due to the orders that he just gave. He hopes that Inoichi would forgive him for giving him the burden of rehabilitating the emotionless ROOT members back into society.

-BREAK-

Three years passed in a flash afterwards, with some changes occurring to the Uzumaki-Namikaze family and to Konoha as a whole. Firstly, Naruto's height now reached 7' tall, and now is pretty much a bona fide giant among the entire populace of Konoha, with the only person that can rival his height being his own daughter, causing the two to be nearly impossible to not notice in a crowd. Speaking of which, even Kushina has grown, her height now being 6'3", causing her to become a huge attention grabber, especially because her beauty absolutely matched her skill. She has completed her elemental affinity training two years ago, the benefits of Shadow Clone training really proving themself. She now learned a lot of jutsu from her father, and has also completed the Rasengan. In the academy, she is also the most feared would-be kunoichi, her hits are unforgiving, her scores are top notch, and her capabilities just showed themselves how good she is. She is also good friends with the lady at the market, known now as Kiyomi and usually chats with her when she walks outside the house.

Meanwhile, Hinata had the most improvement. She is now 5'3" thanks to the intense training that Naruto gave her combined with the healthy food that Kurumi gave them. Her hair, now going past her neck and touching her back is extremely beautiful, making for a terrifying sight in spars when they waved with her every hit on her opponent. Her Byakugan is also stronger than ever, being capable of covering nearly the entire village while seeing the tenketsus of everyone in its range. Her strength, though much weaker than her stepdaughter, is unparalleled in the academy, her not-so Gentle Fist capable of dealing both internal and external damage. She even created a new stance from her spars with Anko, a Gentle Fist variant where she uses her fists instead of pokes and palm strikes and uses nothing but chakra control to stun one's tenketsus while also delivering a punishing blow to their body, capable of blocking tenketsus and breaking bones all in one hit. Obviously, she didn't use this variant of Gentle Fist, which she calls the Gentle Crush at the academy, though she did break a bone or two on Anko. Even Naruto learned that the Gentle Crush: 8 Trigrams 128 Fists can rattle his bones with a weakened chakra armour. And it hurts! Also, she has completed her elemental training, making her hits even deadlier since she can infuse wind chakra in her attacks, capable of either cutting limbs or just piercing someone's body. Combined with a water chakra infused Rotation as defence, she can deal huge amounts of damage up close and had multiple jutsus in her repertoire to counter the Hyuuga clan's long range weakness.

Anko is enjoying her life with the Uzumaki-Namikazes. Not just they made her stronger, she is now a Jounin thanks to the family training with her until she collapsed due to tiredness. The two (Naruto and Kushina) didn't seem like they'll run out of energy at any time! She even upped her rank in the Bingo Book, now a high-A rank ninja at the same level as Kakashi, though she hid a bit of her capabilities still and knows that she can perform better if she used her seal's powers.

Another person who changed during this period is Sasuke. Saddened due to the death of his father at first, especially when his brother explained it to him, he nevertheless improved, having the budding thoughts of Uchiha Superiority taught by his dad in his mind be beaten out of him by his brother, literally. As a result, he became friendlier and more talkative by his standard, and didn't envy someone who is clearly better than he is, like Naruto or Kushina for example. He even laughed in class nowadays! The only problem with this is that his fangirls now hounds him everywhere, making even a trip to the loo felt like a walk in no-man's land on a battlefield.

The changes in Konoha are much more visible, however. Ex-ROOT members are always seen patrolling the town, the Konoha Police insignia at their back. They also perform missions for the Hokage as well sometimes, and their rehabilitation is going well. Most have managed to rediscover their emotions though some are still pretty stupid when it comes to emotions and common sense, having spent most of their previous life in training. One such person is Sai, an ex-ROOT member who was inducted into the academy in Naruto's class. There are others that joined the academy, though most of them are younger. Sai is the only one of age to enter the class. A master in art-based ninjutsu, his obviously fake smiles and scathing words earned him no friends among the academy students though his skills are undeniable.

Also, Itachi was picked as the new clan head, especially considering that he is the original heir before the Massacre, and is now both clan head and ANBU commander. He is doing his best to both administer the clan and ANBU, though he gets help from his mother sometimes when he's on missions. The entire Uchiha clan nowadays felt that what they went through is an educational experience. Their numbers are comparatively low nowadays, but their strength is greater, especially when they stopped thinking using their ego. Itachi's friendliness and general demeanour causes people to like them and actively befriends them instead of their old stick-in-the-ass habits of looking at everyone like they're beneath them. Some of them are even happily married with civilians and other ninjas, showing that the rebirth of the Uchiha Clan in Konoha is going extremely well.

The death of Danzo caused the elders to be investigated to find proof of their involvement in some of Danzo's plans, considering that they are in close relations. Luckily, they are never involved in anything that Danzo did, and only supported his ideas, not his actions. However, they now learned to talk carefully with Sandaime, considering that he is once again showing his fangs and flexing his Hokage muscles, not letting any disrespecting words to fly by him like he did years before.

-BREAK-

It's the early morning and Naruto, Hinata and Kushina are walking towards the academy after their morning training session, their thoughts fixed on the upcoming graduation exams. Naruto inwardly sighed. "The graduation exams. *sighs* this is going to be, as Shikamaru puts it, troublesome. If not for the fact that I need to maintain cover as a regular nin to prevent suspicions, I would've told the old man to suck it and let me be a jounin. But no, I wanted to go through the academy. Well, let's get this show on the road then."

Upon reaching the classroom, they can see that Iruka is already there, the stacks of question papers on his desk. He then looked up from whatever that he was doing on the table before saying, "Ah, Naruto and family. Sit down. Everyone is not here yet. We'll start the exams when everyone's here." They then went straight to their usual seats and prepare to answer the questions and perform the exams as best as they can.

Back in their home, Kurumi is doing her daily gardening of the front gardens, weeding the grounds, watering them and feeding them her purified youki, one of the main reasons the flowers are so large and beautiful. Even the insects around her are flying happily, feeding on the nectar of the flowers. She is humming a song while thinking. "Naru-koi, Kushi-chan and Hina-chan will definitely graduate from the academy. I'm sure of that. If not, they would've wasted all those times of study just to fail! But I know that they'll succeed. Though the problem now is the fact that Naruto wants the laws on him be retracted. I understand the reasons, but is revealing his identity to the village completely necessary? Not that it's not a good idea though, the people are going to be extremely shocked. Teehee." She finishes with a giggle.

She then went ahead to the fountain in the middle of the gardens to clean it up. As she was doing the cleaning, she felt that someone wants to enter the compound, and from the seal, she knows that Anko is the one who wants to enter the compound. She then stops whatever she's doing before using the special seal to teleport her into the compound. She then went straight towards Kurumi, her face shows that she is extremely happy today.

"So Naruto, Kushina and Hinata are all having their graduation exams today eh? Finally! Think I can be their jounin sensei? Not that I can teach them anything though. They are all better than I am at their age."

"Don't sell yourself short Anko. I'm sure we can arrange something for you to be their jounin sensei later on. For now, how about a spar?"

At this, Anko brightened up. "Hell yeah! A spar with you! That's an opportunity not to be missed!"

As they reached the training grounds, Anko asked, "Okay, so what's the rules?"

"Well, as usual, no holds barred, though there is something special today."

"What?"

"You are facing me in my full demon form."

"Wha-" Anko's words are cut short as the figure of Kurumi suddenly changed into a mountain-high, blood red furred nine tailed fox at the Uzumaki-Namikaze training grounds, littered with seals to make the grounds bigger than it actually is, ready to smash into her at any moment. At this sight, Anko just gapes, never being able to see that the woman that she usually sparred is as the Kyuubi, though they have told her so. But then, the fox stretches itself before saying "Whew... Haven't moved in this form for so long... Are you ready Anko? In this form, all my attacks are lethal! You better get ready, because I'm coming at you!" And with that, a paw came straight at the static figure of Anko, intend on smashing her to bits.

Anko snapped out of her trance and dodged in the nick of time. Just a little bit more and she's pancake! She activates her seal, knowing that she'll need some massive amount of power to face this being. She is then covered by golden flames, turning her clothing into a trench coat made of golden flames that flows around her with a spiral symbol at the back with lines that heads towards her arms, legs and back of her head from the spiral, with two more spiral appearing at the left and right chest area of the ethereal trench coat.

This is her Blessed Seal's new form, in which she utilises the purified youki that is within the seal on her neck. In this form, she is much stronger and faster and can even fight for hours before she feels tired. She can also use skills that a jinchuuriki can do, basically turning her into a pseudo jinchuuriki of sorts. Basically, this form gave her some of Naruto's extra capabilities on activating his purified youki, except that she didn't have any passive bonuses from the youki in the seal, any sensory capabilities are only when she activates the seal, and she is much weaker than Naruto when both activates their respective bonuses, though hers had the benefit of being much cooler looking. This form was rarely used by her but when she does; it's basically her turning serious. But even so, she knows that this much is no way near enough to win.

"It seems that you are getting serious! Now, let's go!"

Anko just charged a mini bijuudama in front of her to fire it towards the bijuu in front of her. The battle is on.

-BREAK-

Naruto is performing the taijutsu test at the academy, where he needs to either last against Iruka's assistant, Mizuki for 5 minutes or land a blow on him. Suddenly, a weird feeling entered his mind, and immediately he facepalmed. "She didn't know how to hold back didn't she...?" as Iruka said "Start!", he disappeared before punching Mizuki in the stomach so hard that he basically coughed blood and falls to the ground. Naruto just sheepishly scratched the back of his head before saying "Hehe, oops...?"

-BREAK-

A couple hours passed and the spar between the two ended with Anko lying in a huge paw-shaped crater with Kurumi beside her, back in her human form, grinning with the environment around them pretty much destroyed. "So? How was that?"

Anko's injuries, healed due to her temporary activation of her seal stood up, points her finger to Kurumi before screaming out, "How was that? HOW WAS THAT?! YOU TURNED INTO YOUR FREAKING BIJUU FORM AND EXPECT ME TO WIN AGAINST THAT?! WHAT THE FUCK!?"

"Relax. I'm just playing around. Besides, I haven't moved in my bijuu form for a couple of months now. Smacking you around seems like a fun exercise."

Anko just sighs before both of them walked back towards the house. Anko even had her own room at the house due to the frequency of her appearance at the house. "So, once they passed, who's going to be their jounin sensei?"

"As I said before, we'll find a way to have you assigned as their jounin sensei, no problem. That'll be a fun one, watching all of Konoha's scorned ones in a team."

"Yeah. That will."

"Also, Naruto plans on revealing everything to the people."

At this, Anko stopped. "Everything?"

"Yes."

"Even the fact that he's a half bijuu?"

"Yes."

"Is he crazy?!"

"Sometimes. Why are you fighting against it anyway? I think it's a good idea. Besides, he had thought of an extremely cool way to shock everyone out of their wits while revealing his identity."

"*sighs* Well whatever. You guys definitely are a bunch of crazies."

"Aww... Don't be like that, Anko-chan... We know you loved us."

Anko just scoffs and went inside her room while Kurumi prepares dinner for everyone.

-BREAK-

Evening comes, and the entire Uzumaki-Namikaze family who went to the academy has successfully gained their forehead protectors, Naruto and Kushina wearing theirs at the forehead while Hinata places it around her neck, her fake Caged Bird seal displayed proudly to the world. They are now sitting in the class for some last words from Iruka who is standing in front of them all.

"I can't believe it's been 5 years. A lot of things had happened during that 5 years, and the results can be seen, that you all are here with your forehead protectors shows that. Now don't forget to be here tomorrow for group assignments, and I am proud to be with all of you and to fight side-by-side as official Konoha ninjas. I am proud to have taught you all, and you must know that a ninja's life is not all roses..." Naruto then ignores whatever that Iruka is saying, having known about the life of ninjas since he was a child. Whatever he speaks is nothing but what Naruto had already known.

After a very long speech by Iruka, they are all dismissed and once again reminded about the group assignments tomorrow. Naruto left his family members and went straight to the Hokage tower to meet with the Sandaime. The Sandaime who is currently smoking his pipe while looking out the window, watching as the setting sun bathes Konoha in its golden hue, is reminiscing of whatever events that happened in the years since Naruto is back, is jolted from his memories by a knock on his door. Straightening his robes, he sat down on his chair before saying "Enter!" and in comes Naruto.

"Naruto my boy, how can I help you?"

"It's about the group assignments jiji."

"What about it?"

"Well, I have a request, and it's a pretty good idea too, I think. Here, this is how the groups should be..." And with that, Naruto talks to the Sandaime about the group assignments, intend on getting Anko as their jounin sensei. After a while, the Sandaime said "I think that your proposal has merits. However, there will be an imbalance of power among the groups."

"Well, not really. Here, let me explain..."

After the explanation, the Sandaime shook his head before saying, "You are one really crazy kid, Naruto. Alright, I'll agree to this."

"Oh, and another thing. Once we are accepted as genins, I want you to remove the law about us."

At this, the Sandaime stood before saying, "What?! Naruto, are you crazy?!"

"Yes. I think it is time that Konoha knows about me. I will reveal to them my full identity, even as a half bijuu. And I have a pretty amazing plan for it. Here, I'll explain."

A couple minutes of explanations later, even the Sandaime had to admit that Naruto must've have huge balls to do something like that to the populace. But even he agrees to it. The people of Konoha will never know what hit them when the plan starts...

-CHAPTER ENDS-

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